A Very Diverse Seattle
It was time to leave San Francisco, the sunshine and time to endure a 20 hour bus trip to Seattle. Riding on the bus system in the US gives one a good view of the US drug problem and other social inequities. The bus I was on was crammed packed with wannabe hippies, druggies, slackers and cheap tourist, like me. As the night went on, I saw that stop after lonely stop, how I wished I had a car.
Seattle is the last major city before one hits the Canadian border. It’s surrounded by hills and lush greenery; it certainly reminded me of home, especially how the skies are grey and that it’s always wet here. I’m staying at a hotel, which I booked online, click here, if you’re interested in finding a great hotel in Seattle at a great rate.
Seattle has a lot to offer, like good food, great music scene, that famous fish market, Pike’s Place Fish Market, Starbucks, and they even have a Major League soccer team. Fans of the soccer team can be quite fickle, when their team is winning the stadium is full, which means I didn’t get tickets, but if the team is losing, they couldn’t be bothered to come to a game.
Later that day, I found myself as a parade watcher, there was a parade going on called the ‘HonkFest’, it’s where marching bands fill up the streets and infuse people with some pretty good rhythms. As I was standing there enjoying myself, someone put a flyer in my hand. It was a protest flyer. It had to do with all the bank bailouts. I remember how Seattle made worldwide news back in the 90′s when they protested against the World Trade Organization, because it got out of hand. So, I made sure that I got up early enough the next morning to see a massive protest rally going on, but only about 100 people showed, so needless to say, the protest was a bit subdued. After the ‘protest’, I went walking around the city and came across all these weirdly dressed people. All of them were dressed up as video game characters. Apparently, there was a big ‘Anime‘ convention happening.
I wondered about some more, and came across a different group protesting against the same thing the other group was earlier, but the difference was that they weren’t protesting against the US government, but the British Empire. They thought that us Brits had a plot to take over the world. When they found out I was British, we had a pretty good debate, about the only thing we could agree on was that us Brits had nothing to do with Bush.
But, that’s what I love about America, whether you’re into politics or into video games, there’s something in it for everyone.
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