{"id":12992,"date":"2023-09-14T18:24:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T22:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=12992"},"modified":"2024-03-01T21:12:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T02:12:50","slug":"tp1-day-1-embarkation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/14\/tp1-day-1-embarkation\/","title":{"rendered":"TP1 Day 1: Embarkation in Seattle WA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Boarding<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We have boarded the Carnival Luminosa<\/em>. It leaves in about 4 hours, destination Brisbane, Australia by way of Japan, Okinawa, Philippines and Indonesia. It was also supposed to have 2 ports in Alaska but we were informed at check-in that they were being cancelled due to impending bad weather. Disappointing as Alaska is the only state that I have never set foot in and was expecting to check that off my bucket list. *sigh* Two ports in Japan are being added, but this means that we start the journey with 8 days at sea. Good thing we like sea days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We drove to Seattle yesterday and stayed overnight at the Travelodge <\/a>by the Space Needle<\/a>. This hotel is in a good location – close to downtown and the cruise terminal – and the staff was efficient and friendly. But I can’t recommend it. All of the ice machines were broken (but at least the desk provided a bucket of ice, free of charge, unlike the Travelodge in Barcelona) and the shower water was lukewarm. Not a great hotel, but it was just one night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We got to Seattle by driving up from Tillamook. That is a nice drive up the coast to Astoria. I was planning on driving the coast of Washington, too, but ran short of time (I had to return the car by 5pm). But it was a nice day and we got some nice photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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North of Nehalem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Near Cannon Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Marlene and I went out for a walk around Seattle after we settled in. We ended up a Pike Place Market<\/a> but enjoyed many of the views downtown. Seattle is a modern and very clean city. Lots of high-rise residential buildings. People seem to want to live downtown. Can’t blame them – it is a beautiful city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seattle buildings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Glass art shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sunset over Puget Sound<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The harbor without us<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The harbor with us<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We didn’t go up the Space Needle or do much of anything other than walk around. Next time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t buy the internet package. My plan is to buy 24-hour access about every third day. So my blog posts will be sporadic. Please be patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have boarded the Carnival Luminosa. It leaves in about 4 hours, destination Brisbane, Australia by way of Japan, Okinawa, Philippines and Indonesia. It was also supposed to have 2 ports in Alaska but we were informed at check-in that they were being cancelled due to impending bad weather. Disappointing as Alaska is the only … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,24,109,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hotels","category-places-or","category-tp1","category-wa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3ny","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13676,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12992\/revisions\/13676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}