Pacific Northwest Tech Capital: Pike Place Fish Throwers, Rainier Glaciers, Olympic Rainforest & Grunge Music
📍 Seattle, United States📅 3-day itinerary
The Pacific Northwest city built on seven hills between a saltwater sound and a freshwater lake — where Amazon's headquarters fills one entire neighbourhood with 40,000 tropical plants inside glass domes, where Mount Rainier's 26 glaciers are visible from downtown on clear days, and where the Pike Place fish-throwers have operated at the oldest continually running farmers' market in the United States since 1907, the same year the building opened and 64 years before the first Starbucks opened in the corner below.
The 1971 Starbucks Store Where a 30-Minute Queue Leads to the Brown-Logo Original & The Space Needle's 2018 Glass Rotating Floor Installed 56 Years After the 1962 World's Fair Built the Tower
The Hall of Mosses Where 500-Year-Old Maple Trees Bend Under the Weight of Club Moss in One of the Last Major Temperate Rainforests in the United States & The 35-Minute Ferry to Bainbridge with the Best View of the Seattle Skyline and Mount Rainier Available from Sea Level
The 787 Dreamliner Final Assembly Bay in the Largest Building by Volume on Earth & The Subalpine Wildflower Meadows of Mount Rainier Where the Most Glaciated Peak in the Contiguous US Rises Directly Above the Indian Paintbrush and Avalanche Lily in July