{"id":3262,"date":"2023-10-17T09:40:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T14:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2023-10-17T09:40:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T14:40:51","slug":"seattle-rest-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/2023\/10\/17\/seattle-rest-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle, rest days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two quiet days in Seattle. Sunday had some intermittent showers and Monday was mostly raining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made a walk through Seattle and stopped through the REI store and then over to the Space Needle. I have visited the Space Needle in the past, so no reason to go to the top again. There was a pavilion here and they were holding TurkFest, a Turkish cultural festival. After that, walked back along Pike Street Market and then back to the hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday I figured out some of the transit system. You purchase an ORCA card and then load it with $ for your fares. I used this to take the bus to a laundromat. There don&#8217;t seem to be many laundries downtown, but I found one not far from University of Washington. After that a roundabout trip back downtown. Overall some quiet days here mostly downtown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also tallied up my numbers for the trip. These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>26 state capitols visited<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6604 miles traveled by bicycle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>47 motels owned by Patels<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>224 counties visited.  This is 7% of the counties in the US and accounts for ~20% of the population of the US. In total, I have now bicycled in 880 counties. This is ~28% of the counties in the US and accounts for ~58% of the US population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>From here the plan is to take the Empire Builder train to Chicago and then the Texas Eagle train to Austin. This is about ~75 hours on the train. This all gets me to Austin just before I am back at work next Monday. For the near term, I&#8217;ll be back to shorter bicycle trips for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two quiet days in Seattle. Sunday had some intermittent showers and Monday was mostly raining. I made a walk through Seattle and stopped through the REI store and then over to the Space Needle. I have visited the Space Needle <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/2023\/10\/17\/seattle-rest-days\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3263,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions\/3263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}