Lake Washington, I think. I'm pretty sure.
Richard and Gilbert's house seemed to have a lot of sky-lights. What a feature!
Not often you get a shot of P dogg in a party house. This house had a pool table, air-hockey, foosball, and a bumpin ass stereo down-stairs, and boiling peanuts, more movies than you can shake a stick at, more empty liquor bottles than you can shake a stick at, and drunk people upstairs. I would be hanging out there right now if I lived in Seattle and they'd have me. People were getting all psychedelic and we were blasting Led Zeppelin! 4th of July calls for an all American band, right?
Anyhow, Zeppelin was blasting and I did my patented joke where I'm all, "AC/DC, bad ass man." They all laughed after a beat and I knew that these dudes were all right. 4 for fourth of July!
This was the view from either the viaduct or the aqueduct. I don't remember what it's called exactly. I thought it was the expressway, but I guess that wasn't it exactly.
7/10/09
not an infomercial.
7/9/09
Seattle, 7/4/09
Richard and Gilbert's (uncles) house is really awesome. I'm not sure I have any other pictures of it.
It was pretty fancy-- P felt right at home
View from Artists Point..? I can't remember if that's what it was called. You can see Rainier back there, which I guess was kind of unlikely. Seattle's a great city. I really liked this trip. I hadn't really had a good trip up there before, but I have now.
This was Brady and Karen's house (cousins). Karen is living at Guantanamo Bay right now though, so that's kind of gnarly. She's a commander in the Coast Guard. Maybe not a Commander, but an officer at least. So she's there, and Brady is a Husky, doing some scholastisyzing
4th of July: 200 day weekend!
We went to Seattle for the 4th of July. Special guest commentary from the wife: "This guy is saying 'my goodness that is a big pepper grinder.'" She's even trying to tell me how to do punctuation. "The lady is saying: I gotta crank this bitch all day! You should see my tritoids!" My favorite part is the lady who's grinding the pepper. She's really getting into it! Feel the burn deep in your tri-toids.
"This one has a lot of wood. It was the only empty pier in the line. The piers were built on an angle." Public use.
"Boy meets world." Is she making fun of me? "Also, this (touches building on the right) is a famous hotel and restaurant." Didn't they film Real World Seattle right around there? 
Laughter. "The troll was so weird we didn't even get out of the car." It looks like they were doing some interpretive theater or something. For those keeping score-- Homemade construction tally: Portland has Burnside, Seattle has... a troll. I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin. "The troll was in the center of the universe neighborhood." (Freemont) Pretty impressive troll, actually!
"Best trip to Seattle ever!" 4th, 4th, 4th of Juuuuuulyyyyy!
7/8/09
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There was some "storm" that blew through. I thought there was going to be epic lightning and a tornado, but there was just a little lightning and a ton of rain. I did nothing but get wet. Plus the dog didn't want to ever go on a walk with me again. He hates the rain.
WHAT IS GOING ON HERE
7/7/09
Snake River, Hells Canyon, Pendleton, Oregon
shady business. These last two were from Pendleton, OR. Tomorrow I'm going to try to take in some film. We'll see how that goes.
Arlington, Oregon
Arlington was one of our first stops. We stopped first in West The Dalles, but I didn't get a good picture there really. I thought Arlington was amazing. I really loved it. I also thought these pictures were going to be awesome but they are extremely ho-hum. I think my problem is my format. I was looking at 4x5 cameras last night... The negatives are like as big as your face.
7/6/09
regatta
asleep at the wheel
anchored
power stroking
regatta
We pulled out of the river in Independence, OR. It was a successful trip, and these were the last shots that I took, and then of course the camera sat around for a while so now we get the actual shots.
