Trains, Canoes, and Automobiles
Kiki and I just returned from a round trip on the Amtrak to Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula and purchased a 2021 Nissan Leaf. The Olympic Peninsula is stunning. The photo above is not enhanced or put through any filters. We enjoyed a weird day tour in a Mercedes mini-bus with our guide Mei and a nine other folks. It was a pretty cool bilingual tour (Mandarin & English, in that order). Also fun and amazing was the Chihuli Garden and Glass , Monorail to the Space Needle. Seattle itself is just another urban toilet. I'm sure there are reasons why every large conglomeration of humans turns into a foul, inhuman canyon full of visible wealth disparities and panhandling junkies. That vexed feeling of having to shut off your humanity and walk past your fellow human beings or be taken advantage of and grifted and lied to is incredibly frustrating. We do know how to solve this, but I guess that society has decided to give billionaires more tax breaks on their private jets instead. Sp