# First business trip coming up (3 weeks in the northwest USA!) - prepare me **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 27, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-business-trip-coming-up-3-weeks-in-the-northwest-usa-prepare-me/494465 "2009-04-27T03:53:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-business-trip-coming-up-3-weeks-in-the-northwest-usa-prepare-me/494465/21 "2009-05-14T17:37:07Z")
I’m staying at the Seattle Sheraton (6th & Pike) til tomorrow, then at the Bellevue Sheraton for the next 2 weeks. I’ll be working in that area, so I won’t need to come back to Seattle for business, except when I return to the airport. Here’s the first batch of photos, for those of you still following along - [http://www.richegreen.com/seattle1/seattle1.html](http://www.richegreen.com/seattle1/seattle1.html) ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-business-trip-coming-up-3-weeks-in-the-northwest-usa-prepare-me/494465/22 "2009-05-14T18:01:07Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > First of all, what’s with all these new travel fees? $15 to check ONE 35 lb bag? Having to BUY meals on the plane? $10 a day for internet access in the hotel? The last time I travelled (granted, its been a couple years) this stuff was all FREE! You don’t have news at home? 😃 > [@](#): > > Also, the trees are WAY bigger than they are on the East Coast. You ain’t seen nothing yet. Go to the [Olympic Peninsula](http://www.arthurleej.com/a-peninsulatrees.html). ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-business-trip-coming-up-3-weeks-in-the-northwest-usa-prepare-me/494465/23 "2009-06-01T14:15:34Z")
Well, I survived it. It was actually the most amazing trip of my life! 5 days in Seattle, another 2 weeks in and around Bellevue, a day trip down to Portland, a visit to Mt St Helens (which aside from being some of the most amazing scenery I’ve ever seen, was also significant since it erupted when I was born) and to the largest building in the world…I saw just about everything I wanted to with the exception of the peninsula, I confirmed that I still remember how to drive, and I even won a prize at the Red Hook Brewery’s Tuesday Trivia. I also did some work from time to time… Staying active while away from home is the most important advice I can give to future business trippers. I made a key point to make sure I was barely at my hotel except to sleep or unwind. And the Bellevue Sheraton thanked me by slapping a $200 smoking fee on my room, despite the fact that I’ve never smoked a day in my life. Fortunately I was able to fight it and get it reversed, but that and a $60 parking ticket I got in Portland were the ONLY dampers on my trip. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-business-trip-coming-up-3-weeks-in-the-northwest-usa-prepare-me/494465/24 "2009-06-01T14:21:39Z")
double post…what happened to the delete button? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-business-trip-coming-up-3-weeks-in-the-northwest-usa-prepare-me/494465.md?page=1)