When in Scenic Seattle

It is no secret that I love to travel to the Seattle area. Unfortunately Seattle is like a lot of cities and does a majority of their road construction during the summer. What this means is that it really messes your travel routes up with many detours. My family and I have found a sneaky trick to get around this. If we want to go downtown and do some shopping but do not want to hassle with the downtown parking, we simply park over by the Seattle Science Center (actually across from the EMP) and hop on the monorail that goes downtown. Sure from there you have to walk some but that is actually good for you to do. Also if you have a child who loves trains as my son does then it is a special treat on both ends of the shopping trip that he/she may not have wanted to go on in the first place. Keep this in mind when you are deciding to travel to a larger city. Most cities now have vamped up their mass transit systems due to more users do in part to the hike in gas prices.

On a side note I want to thank all of the readers who have followed me over the years. I have just hit 1000 page views, which might not seem a lot to some of you. But to me with this specialty blog it is incredible. I will continue to give out travel tips and ideas for vacations as fast as I can. Looking forward to many more trips together.