Seattle Trip Top 6

• Pit-stopping in the indie-rock capitol of Olympia, Washington for the very first time (!!!!) and meeting one Mike Cummins (older brother to Temple and Matt!!!!). Also, randomly purchasing an exquisite ceramic bowl hand-made by this Northwest original.

• Coming around that one corner on I-5 where you all-the-sudden see the city of Seattle for the first time—the city and the Sound and the sun gleaming crazily off the windows and the water.

• Skating Marginal Way, just fooling around all by myself while the big men talked and drank beer and the birds flapped their wings.

• Starvingly finding a Greek restaurant and eating incendiary fresh pita bread sprinkled with big chunks of salt.

• Drinking a tall whiskey soda at a yuppy bar with my guy.

• Walking through the rows of vegetables on Beacon Hill, no one in sight, skyscrapers in the distance, a cool breeze whispering of fog and falling leaves.