If you wanted to see the west Coast, Seattle WA or Portland Oregon?
Wife wants to do a family trip.
Wife wants to do a family trip.
Travel choices.
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What would you consider appropriate family activities? Car Camping, back country campinig, hotels, urban vagrancy? How long of a trip?
Head further south and hit California, unless you want to take a summer trip to the rain.
Yes. Go to California. It is always raining here. Make sure to tell everyone in California that.
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Ferry to Friday harbor, Kenmore air tour around Mt Rainier, if points further south are on the list Mt. St. Helens is a must. Pacific Coast on the peninsula is awesome if the family doesn't mind long road trips. I wouldn't bother with downtown Seattle unless the various museums or Mariners/Sounders games are of interest.
Yeah, downtown SEA is played out for sure, traffic is a nightmare. There are still some cool spots around Lake Union IMO, the park that's at the locks, rent a comfort bicycle and there are some pretty amazing easy accessible places to ride, like Lake Washington and Lake Union area, etc. Museum of Flight, Everett factory tour, etc. There are still some good "downtown" areas, just not downtown Seattle.
Yeah, I usually get a late flight back and I'll go hang out at one of those spots on my last day before heading to the airport.
As a person who has visited both but lived in neither, they're both pretty neat cities really. And they each have fun stuff to do in the surrounding area. Tough call.
#imnothelping
#imnothelping
I've heard that people who live in Seattle go to Oregon for vacation? Not to Portland though. 
If you only plan to spend your time in a city, Seattle >> Portland - but both places suck, honestly.
If you only plan to spend your time in a city, Seattle >> Portland - but both places suck, honestly.
Portland is inland on a river confluence. Seattle is on salt water at least. Neither one accurately depicts "west coast" living. They do however showcase "PNW urban hell" Are you flying into or driving to this great American landscape? Where you coming from? What's your wife want to see? Ocean, cities, mountains?
It also rains all year long.
I'm hoping by Seattle and Portland he means Washington and Oregon via Seattle or Portland airports.
That’s a feature, not a bug.
Last real moisture event we had was a snow storm in February.
Driving, I don't want to go to either.
Money I don't have, but not my choice.
Money I don't have, but not my choice.
Yes but then theres Yakima County.
No, the Mexican place in Barrow burned down a few years ago.
This is not true. A French taco is an abomination not worthy of the name.
Oui, C’est Vrai.
How dare you!
Can't believe the lovely seaport docks and somehow worse than seattle traffic of tacoma isn't on this list.
All the ick of a bigger city and none of the perks. Can't just overlook that shit like it doesn't exist!
Speaking of which, make sure to visit everett
All the ick of a bigger city and none of the perks. Can't just overlook that shit like it doesn't exist!
Speaking of which, make sure to visit everett
Hey, the Tacoma Dome us the world's largest wooden dome and an important cultural center, they have monster truck shows.
Helpful since it will be raining every day!
My favorite Seattle suburb is Cle Elum.
Didn't care for the riding there right in town, but I have ideas...
Yeah, Rat Pac up and accessing those Roslyn trails. I thought they were dusty AF, the "features" were all worn down or crumbling and in dire need of attention, it was a rare day of riding in WA state where I wished I had ridden elsewhere in the state.
WA does some great DH stuff, like Tiger, Tokul, Darrington, Bellingham, etc. And then there's the great big epics that you can do with super quality trails (that still have kickass DHs). The stuff in Roslyn was basically neither. Riding is riding and I wouldn't hate living there having trails out the door, but I definitely prefer other areas.
TF shows a ton of trails "behind" Roslyn though, so I was wondering if that stuff was good, like for much bigger epic rides.
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