Day 12: Portland, OR to Ellensburg, WA
total miles traveled: 447
Today we actually met up with Jeanie and Brian Ceneviva at the Nike headquarters in Portland. Mom called me up and said that Jeanie had just moved out there with Katherine (C or K), so it would be nice if they saw a familiar face. I was concerned about taking more time to get to Seattle because that was Turtle's main place he wanted to go. After about 5 minutes at Nike, my concerns were not needed; Turtle fell in love with the place and found where he wants to work. Brian actually took us on a mini tour of the campus and told us about the different buildings and the different things Nike had going on. We saw an exhibit for Nike's contribution to soccer, which was really interesting. Turtle and Sarah were in love with that room. We stayed at Nike for about an hour and then headed on our way. As we drove through Portland, we realized that it was actually a very clean city. We ran into some traffic along the way, but nothing too serious. We drove on up to Seattle and found the Pike Place Fish Market from our FISH video we watch every fall at job training. We recognized a couple of the guys from the video, which was pretty cool. One of the guys who was standing out front started talking to us and asking us where we were from. We told him that we were from NC, we were doing and epic road trip, and that we watch their video every year. This prompted him to allow us to go behind the counter and get a picture with one of the workers. We stayed and watched them throw fish and even got some video of their antics. I bought a long sleeve t shirt and Jenn bought a sweatshirt, so we supported them without having to buy fish. They gave us free stickers, which they told us they normally give to kids. Turtle wandered off towards the rest of the street market while Sarah, Jenn, and I walked around the block. We were on a mission to find a t shirt for Sarah, and we ended up running into a street grunge band. One guy kept asking if we could spare a dollar so he could buy pot; none of us had cash, so we did not support his drug habit. Jenn ended up going into a little coffee shop and getting a thing of hot tea, which helped her throat which has been hurting. We walked into a couple more stores and tried to find a t shirt that wasn't a) expensive, or b) incredibly cheesey. We headed back into the market area, and as we were passing the fish maket, one of the guys yelled "hey roadtrippers!" It was kinda cool to be recognized when we had just met these guys. On our way back to the car to meet up with Turtle, we actually stopped and tried some homemade pasta at this one booth. The samples they were giving were for chocolate pasta, which was actually really good. You serve it as dessert and can put toppings such as ice cream or whipped cream on top. We headed back to the car, got everyone situated, and then drove over to the canal to try and find the Deadliest Catch boats. We didn't find any of the main ones, but we saw the Retriever and the Alutian Lady which have both been on the show before. We ended up parking in this park and walked up a big hill which gave a beautiful view of Seattle. There was this lady who was placing placcards of astrological signs and planets down on the compass that was set in the concrete. She was discussing how something exciting was going to happen when aries combined with Jupiter 14 minutes from that time. Needless to say, it was at least interesting. We ended up leaving Seattle and all came to the consensus that Seattle is Boone, only 20x bigger. As we were driving along I-90, we saw an ASU Dad bumpersticker on one of the cars that passed us. It made us all pretty happy. We arrived at the hotel pretty late and all just crashed.
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