Boeing and The Future of Flight Tour – Seattle
It’s easy to appreciate one of America’s great companies and the real-life sci-fi movie set its factory contains if you’re a nerd like me. I’m going to go out on a limb, though, and argue the Future of Flight tour at Boeing’s Everett, WA factory has far broader appeal. True, it’s part science fiction, […]
Travel Hacks – Uber
Photo by Diego Torres Silvestre If you’ve ever tried to hail a cab in the rain, negotiated one price with a driver and ended up paying a different one when you arrived, or schlepped your luggage up or down the subway stairs because you thought it would be impossible to get a cab, get […]
Travel Hacks – Car Rental
I was all set to publish a review lauding the virtues of the mainline agencies like Hertz, Avis, and Entreprise, and lamenting that their primary competition, Zipcar, hasn’t yet delivered on its promise to a sufficient degree to be taken seriously – then reality intervened. SEATAC, this week, Hertz counter – Agent: The car […]
The Underground Tour – Seattle
Seattle’s now-famous underground tour could go one of two ways – either it’s a kind of sex-and-the-city tour of the 1890s – one in which you grow to know a few key “characters” in Seattle’s history and appreciate the locations for their significance in the story, or it’s a mildly-interesting set of cellars with […]
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Hey folks if there’s nothing to read here yet check back with us in late July, when I’ll be posting several times-a-day about our trip!
