So pretty

Portland is nice as well man. Yes, it’s not in the same league as Seattle, but what’s important is that you guys tried your hardest. There is no shame in that my dude!

Agreed. I love the west coast!

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We literally had a sunset like that earlier tonight. Both amazing and picture worthy.. and I should have taken a pic! West coast is the best coast.

There a book called the sage wind blows cold and it’s a murder mystery based out of Wenatchee area I believe. Has two more books to the trilogy but I haven’t read them yet

The Tulip Festival will be in swing in La Conner. Go check out Deception Pass not too far away. And if you want a long day, take the ferry from Anacortes to Friday Harbor on San Juan Island.

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I’m certainly going to check it out

I greatly appreciate it!

First two weeks of April for some business, but my days are expected to be short

Sol Duc Hot Springs

When we had family come visit we got a lot of use out of the Seattle City Pass. 5 different activities for 119 dollars plus I think there are additional coupons in the back. The glass museum, space needle and a harbor tour on a boat were some of the big ones.

Important detail, according to everyone on the west side, everyone on the east side must be a MAGA Chud.

Plan a couple day trips. Out to Pt Townsend area, and a ferry up to San Juan islands & Friday Harbor.

Incredibly beautiful, well worth it.

If you like hiking pick a direction and you have tons to check out.

Other ideas- Glass Museum, Pile Place Market, many Farmers markets, music shows, catch a game like Sounders, Mariners, Kraken, water front and Great Wheel at sunset.

Go up the Columbia Tower to viewing deck vs Space Needle.

Rent bikes, or kayaks and go out on Lake Union.

I’m forgetting about a hundred things but somewhere to start.

Not sure what your situation looks like but people in my city will pay for a gym membership and use those showers daily. Ours is $35 a month which might be too pricey but it would be a solid investment for hygiene

I like Razzi’s pizzeria downtown, the area isn’t great and the food is a bit pricy but it’s worth it. depends when you’re coming up (april?) and why (business/friends/date)?

Get Yourself a joolca and take a shower when ever you're near a stream.

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Bogachiel State Park, 5 or 10 minutes south of Forks has showers in the campground restrooms.

Bogachiel State Park should have showers, though they may be currently closed for the winter. Their phone number is on their website, you should be able to give them a call for more information: https://www.parks.wa.gov/478/Bogachiel

are you on fb?

Love the story, thank you for sharing so much :)

There's room for rational debate on either side, but I think the evidence points pretty broadly to this being good so far.

I've generally seen two complaints:

a) Taxing the rich is bad. If we leave the rich all of their money, they will use it to generate a better economy for everyone. If we tax the rich, they'll move themselves and/or their money away.

Trickle-down economics is pretty much bull****. The fraction of the profits going into the working class jobs versus into billionaires' literal rocket ships are exceedingly small and shrinking. The threats of capitalists leaving Washington are real, but widely overblown.

b) A $250,000 threshold this year will become $2500 next year, and next we basically have State income taxes like all those other shmucks.

Given the assumption that income taxes (favor the poor) are better than sales taxes (favor the rich), I'd rather tax money come from income taxes. But the risk comes down to the government saying "Why not do both?", and wasting the money on stupid stuff. It's Washington, so it could happen.

They really are!

Washington has everything and most ppl don’t even know it.. Heck, I was born on Larsen AFB in early 60s and grew up there! I remember my parents showing me the ginkgo trees and petrified wood in eastern Washington when I was young…. I remember the isolation of the dry hills around Vantage, from a band trip from rural western WA to Pullman…. I remember the Potholes and how weird they looked to a 4 yo… I remember the amazing beauty of the Sunrise side at Mount Rainier and hiking on the base of Mowich Glacier with my dad when I was 7ish… I remember flying a kite with him at Dungeness hook for HOURS…. I remember Mount Baker on super clear days driving up to my Grandpa’s in Snohomish…. and the tulip fields up the Skagit on drive to Gramma’s in Mt. Vernon…. Sitting my Grandpa’s shoulders at the 4th of July parade in Everett and then another time in Leavenworth… the beauty of skiing up at Snoqualmie when it was a backwater…. And then visiting in 2017 and seeing Hurricane Ridge in the sunshine for the first time in my life! I got to work as a forest fire guard south of Snoqualmie Pass for 3 summers… just took all that life up near and at the crest for granted back then…. Its amazing. My dad’s little acre out there still is a thing of rainforest wonder to me!

ETA I didn’t mean to write a book… but I moved to Chicago when I was 18 and now live in OH… the things I took for granted (views of Rainier from where I grew up on a sunny day for instance) are not overstated - last November I was back there and driving from Airport area east to my dad’s… had a shot of Rainier in the early sunlight (and in NOVEMBER!)…. And I used to see it out the window of my school bus…. Didn’t think twice…. I pulled over to take a picture because now I know most people don’t have a Mount Rainier view from their school bus.