I am from New York who went to Seattle for the first time, what surprised me

I spent about 100 hours on amtrak trains from the northeast to the southwest. In my experience, travel by train in the United States is usually more expensive than flying, although this depends on the road.

So when I was booking my travel from Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada to Seattle, I was shocked that the trainer’s train ticket cost $ 50 compared to the primary economy of $ 150 on the same day.

Certainly, I paid more hours-it took four hours to ride compared to the trip for about an hour. However, you are excited to travel slowly and watch the landscape turns from one country to another.

I initially traveled and business class at AMTRAK trains before, but this was my first trip in the coach since I was a child. So I was not sure how to compare my countless experiences in the basic economy.

Since the ticket was less than half of the price, I did not expect the train seat to be more comfortable than the harsh plane seats and the identity that I used to. I even avoid the neck and back pain that I usually get when flying.

On the train, the seats felt the widest area of ​​the stem more than the model economic trip.

It came out of the amtrak train in Seattle in the back. This was the first time that my legs have been stretched since it resigned in Vancouver four hours ago. Through independent rocky soundtrack in my ear and sun’s earphones, I was excited to rid my footback bag to my hotel one mile.

But I quickly learned that a tendency in Seattle does not feel like a tendency in New York. The path was almost completely hard. When I stopped arresting my breath at an intersection, I noticed that the street to my right went up to what is as long as I could see.

In my city, I walk a lot, but most roads are relatively flat. So I did not expect to feel tired after only one mile.

Located in the center of Seattle, Pike Pile Market is located in the center of Seattle, and is a distinctive outdoor market with more than 200 stores and restaurants. I heard about it for decades, so I spent the first day in Seattle to see the nine -acre shopping center.

On the back of a sunny Thursday, the market was crowded with both locals and tourists. I mixed my way through what I felt like a line to get a peek on fresh seafood. When you need a mob break, I found a shelter inside a used book store.

Often, the connection truck was walking in it, dividing the crowd into triggered cartons, but most cars were not allowed to drive via the Pike Place. This is logical to me, because each vehicle passed the pedestrian flow.

But I was surprised when I learned that the streets paved with gravel in the open market are usually open to all cars-the city tests a ban on cars regardless of sellers, delivery drivers and those with disabilities, The Seattle Times reported in April. The temporary ban started on April 23 and will continue until the end of the summer.

I was fortunate enough to nick my journey inadvertently while the ban. I couldn’t imagine what would be the case if the cars could move freely across the crowded market.

While wandering in the narrow alleys around the Pike Place market, I was slowed by groups of tourists who stopped taking selfies in front of a vibrant brick wall. The wall was settled with a range of shapes from peaches to peiwinkle.

Initially, I thought the color stains were drying out of the paint. But when I saw a pedestrian pulling sharp from his mouth and stuck it on the brick wall, I realized that the wall was a gum fabric.

I was shocked and brought up slightly on your awareness, but when I focused on how the wall actually appeared instead of the bacterium materials, I thought it was a playful artwork.

Before you ask, no, I did not add my own contribution to the Seattle gum wall.

I lost my shipping port somewhere between Vancouver and Seattle, so I went to a target near the city center hotel. Returning home in New York City, the goals I repeat are small and offer more than one medicine store.

Therefore, I was shocked when I learned that this site was an institution at a distance of 96,000 square feet, from three floors. While you are still smaller than the goals you will find outside the cities, According to the Seattle TimesThe store contained a wide range of grocery stores, hygiene tools and technical products.

There were so many home commodity corridors that I thought I could decorate my entire apartment with its offers.

Seattle has long been known as the Technology Center, where software engineers have been moving in large numbers to work in large companies such as Amazon and Google.

Local residents told me that I can find the prosperous scene in the South Lake Union neighborhood, the home of the original Amazon headquarters. The presence of the company in more than 30 offices of the offices led to the “Amazonia” neighborhood.

Before visiting, I expected to find something but the streets around the business lined with glass skyscrapers in a technology nourishing neighborhood. So I was surprised by the great presence of nature in South Lake Union.

The Neighborhood Borders Lake Union, where the park of the floods full of contestants, bikers, discussions and geese. Local residents said that the park had died on weekends, but technology workers are repeated during the week. Neverted, the Google building had a full forest of trees on the roof.

My attention caught my attention while hiking via “Amazonia. In an external space between Amazon buildings in South Lake Union, it is difficult to miss the light yellow trailer.

I took a closer look and saw boxes full of bananas under the umbrella, and a sign on it, “Take one – not only for Amazon but for anyone in society.”

I did not expect to find a free snack in the city center. Amazon previously told Business Insider that the founder Jeff Bezos reached the idea of ​​offering a free healthy snack without a cover. The platform was opened for the first time in 2015.

From the surface of the hotel, a local referred to a mountain at a distance and told me that it was an active volcano.

I could barely see the volcano through fog, but they told me Mount Rene, who lasts in 1894, was more clear in the clear days.

I was shocked when I learned that this city, the home of nearly 800,000 people, is very close to what could be a natural disaster. According to the Seattle Emergency Management OfficeThe city is a safe distance away from the flow of potential explosion, but water and energy resources may be affected.

The Seattle mixture of natural and urban lifestyles reminded me of my previous trips to the northwestern cities of the Pacific, which went to me.

But I was surprised by the unique features of Seattle, from the Pike Place market to the strange gums wall.

And because it was completely different from New York City, I definitely plan to return to Seattle for another Big Apple break.