Anonymous
12/01/2025 10:13
Subject: Summer - Seattle/Mt Ranier/Portland advice?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Portland is skippable. Unless you want to see a city that looks like it's a scene from the walking dead, sadly. Visiting a McMenamins property is worth it.
There are neighborhoods in Portland that are still vibrant and alive. Just get out of the downtown area.
It's actually pretty much ALL of them that are vibrant and alive, other than maybe 10 square blocks downtown, which aren't great but certainly not awful by any means- folks need to get off the Fox News crack pipe.
Anonymous
12/01/2025 09:34
Subject: Summer - Seattle/Mt Ranier/Portland advice?
Anonymous wrote:With only a day in Seattle I’d skip Seattle center. Teenage boys will be bored, unless they’re rock and roll fans. Maybe hit up the market. Take the ferry to Bainbridge, turn around and get back on. Have a couple great meals. There are a couple other points if interest you can use as an excuse to get out and about based on their interests, Hendrix statue, Bruce Lee grave, museum at UW, Ballard locks (but the amount of salmon going through has been declining), etc.
I remember the days when it was a given that a teenage boy was a rock and roll fan.