romulusnr: Pics and Stories
Plimoth Plantation
I went here for the first time just a few weeks ago on a trip back East to visit family. My mother lives a few towns over. The native village is very educational and intriguing, and sobering. The colony is a lot of fun, everyone is in character, and there are certainly some characters!
Salvation Army
Amazon.com's Corporate HQ (former)
Starbucks Corporate Headquarters
Bellevue Airfield (abandoned)
Been here before to find a geocache (Ghosts of Runways Past). http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?id=91641
Much of the original airfield has been built upon. The rest is run by the city parks department. Theres some sort of electrical substation nearby.
There are still remains of the paved runway and taxiway. The runway line is still visible; I presume the runway number is buried under the dirt and grass that is reclaiming the land.
Plymouth Rock
Some have called it "the most disappointing landmark in America". Plymouth Rock, believed to be the rock the Pilgrims first set foot on, is about a meter wide and half a meter high, with a few cracks filled in with concrete, and the number "1620" carved into one side. It lies in the sand beneath a grand portico (easily ten times its size in area and over 15 feet high) on the souvenir-shop-littered waterfront of Plymouth, MA.
You walk up, look down, see the rock, stare at it for a bit to see if you can find something interesting about it, and then lose interest. Presumably you then walk across the street to one of dozens of shops selling shirts and knick-knacks with something New Englandy on it.
All is not lost. Mayflower II is a short walk up the street, and Plimoth Plantation is barely the next town over.
Qwest Field with WSU game in progress
Renton Municipal Airport (RNT)
Boston Museum of Science
We spent most of a day during our one-week trip to Boston at Museum of Science. While there was lots of new stuff, and some old stuff gone that I missed, there were a number of things that simply hadn't changed, which made me feel right at home.
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
