Day 19: The Towers of God and the Bridge of Glass
I went to another haunted place this morning before leaving Portland. This is apparently a haunted pub not far from my motel... according to legend the ghost sometimes leaves mysterious ten dollar bills in the tip jar...
The HAUNTED BATHROOM, where according to the book the toilets sometimes flush on their own. I'm starting to get the impression that this book is somewhat full of shit, and I don't think I'll be checking out any of the other places it lists (unless it's by accident). Still, that revolving-towel thing is pretty weird...
Here are some Jesus Towers off of the freeway leading to Seattle:
A rather large dam with some interesting walkways all over it. Some of them sub-aquatic:
An abandoned store in the mountains (I chose to take a more creative route than the direct freeway, which seemed somewhat dull. I later heard that it's supposed to be one of the more beautiful freeway stretches in the country, ah well...):
Tacoma is the neighbor city of Seattle. It doesn't seem to be a very popular place (it's rarely talked about), but that just means it's a better-kept secret. I was only there for a few hours but I thought it was pretty damn scenic, at least as far as forgotten cities go:
This bridge goes over the freeway to the Museum of Glass, one of the coolest buildings in Washington.
This is inside of the bridge. Imagine looking at these odd glass shapes while cars pass underneath you. Now go to Tacoma and experience it firsthand.
After Tacoma I drove north to Issaquah, a small town just outside of Seattle. My father worked there for about a year when I was 17, and my parents had taken my sisters and I up there for a month (in the hopes that we would love it and want to move up there as well - it didn't work). It's interesting to note how much the town has changed - it was extremely rural back in 98, with horse farms and forests marking most of the countryside. It's evolved (or devolved, perhaps) into a suburb of the city - more of the strip malls and parking lots that I often have felt are choking San Diego county to death. So I'm quite glad I didn't move - if I'm going to live in a suburb, might as well make it one right next to the beach.
Listening to: Stereo Total's "My Melody." ST are a fun and occasionally funny band, blatantly inspired by French Ye-ye pop and late 70's New Wave (think Devo doing Serge Gainsbourg songs, but with an endearingly snotty female vocalist). This one seems like a bit of a transitional album... it's not as noisy as the earlier records, but not as polished as the most recent ones - and there are a *lot* of covers on it. A Beatles cover, a Plastics cover, a Pizzicato 5 cover, TWO Gainsbourg covers, and most hilariously a cover of one of those awful Beatles "tribute" songs - "Ringo, I love you YEAH YEAH YEAH!" It's defenitely one of their stronger records that I've heard - at any rate, it's the most diverse. And with a band as kitschy as this, diversity is a big factor...
The HAUNTED BATHROOM, where according to the book the toilets sometimes flush on their own. I'm starting to get the impression that this book is somewhat full of shit, and I don't think I'll be checking out any of the other places it lists (unless it's by accident). Still, that revolving-towel thing is pretty weird...
Here are some Jesus Towers off of the freeway leading to Seattle:
A rather large dam with some interesting walkways all over it. Some of them sub-aquatic:
An abandoned store in the mountains (I chose to take a more creative route than the direct freeway, which seemed somewhat dull. I later heard that it's supposed to be one of the more beautiful freeway stretches in the country, ah well...):
Tacoma is the neighbor city of Seattle. It doesn't seem to be a very popular place (it's rarely talked about), but that just means it's a better-kept secret. I was only there for a few hours but I thought it was pretty damn scenic, at least as far as forgotten cities go:
This bridge goes over the freeway to the Museum of Glass, one of the coolest buildings in Washington.
This is inside of the bridge. Imagine looking at these odd glass shapes while cars pass underneath you. Now go to Tacoma and experience it firsthand.
After Tacoma I drove north to Issaquah, a small town just outside of Seattle. My father worked there for about a year when I was 17, and my parents had taken my sisters and I up there for a month (in the hopes that we would love it and want to move up there as well - it didn't work). It's interesting to note how much the town has changed - it was extremely rural back in 98, with horse farms and forests marking most of the countryside. It's evolved (or devolved, perhaps) into a suburb of the city - more of the strip malls and parking lots that I often have felt are choking San Diego county to death. So I'm quite glad I didn't move - if I'm going to live in a suburb, might as well make it one right next to the beach.
Listening to: Stereo Total's "My Melody." ST are a fun and occasionally funny band, blatantly inspired by French Ye-ye pop and late 70's New Wave (think Devo doing Serge Gainsbourg songs, but with an endearingly snotty female vocalist). This one seems like a bit of a transitional album... it's not as noisy as the earlier records, but not as polished as the most recent ones - and there are a *lot* of covers on it. A Beatles cover, a Plastics cover, a Pizzicato 5 cover, TWO Gainsbourg covers, and most hilariously a cover of one of those awful Beatles "tribute" songs - "Ringo, I love you YEAH YEAH YEAH!" It's defenitely one of their stronger records that I've heard - at any rate, it's the most diverse. And with a band as kitschy as this, diversity is a big factor...
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