A nice sunday trip from downtown Seattle with the Washington State ferry to Bainbridge Island made me forget the multi-million cities my travel is about. Seattle is the smallest city of my trip anyway but Bainbridge Island is real rural.
this island is rated the second best place for living in the U.S. according to wikipedia. If you ever happen to go there, take a right turn when leaving the ferry (everyone else goes left) and walk for 5 minutes. Then ask a local for public access to the water. You might end up on some beautiful strech at the waterfront completely alone, because the way there is so small and secretly that none of the seattle tourists will find it.
Thats the mount rainier in the far back. With 4390 meters a bigger one, I guess.
and here is Seattle seen from the ferry. I guess a popular tourist photo.
And this is about Obama’s health insurance initiative. From a german perspective it is hard to understand why people are getting so angry about it (well, not all of course. Mostly white and richer people are, i guess). I suggest to file this under ethnography.