# Off to Seattle -- another vacation thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 2, 2000, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/off-to-seattle-another-vacation-thread/31730 "2000-09-02T01:33:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2000, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/off-to-seattle-another-vacation-thread/31730/21 "2000-09-02T14:00:12Z")
Yes, it’s ANOTHER PNW doper - from the wrong side of the Sound (Bremerton) Another good spot to go to: head out to LaPush on the Pacific Coast… not TOO far from Port Angeles, so maybe AuntiePam should look into it… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2000, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/off-to-seattle-another-vacation-thread/31730/22 "2000-09-02T14:29:12Z")
Geez, **Scotticher** , I totally missed that you were in B’ham! Next time I’m up we’ll have to have our own mini-Dopefest over some chicken-fried steak at Arlis’s. **dropzone** : Actually the flying in So. Cal. almost can’t be beat! I learned to fly in the high desert, where the sky is a huge blue bowl stretching from horizon to horizon. But being in the PNW will probably make me get off my butt and finally get an IFR ticket! ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/off-to-seattle-another-vacation-thread/31730/23 "2000-09-03T04:35:10Z")
Pluto- Please email me about setting up a PNW DopeFest for sometime after you have recovered from your surgery. I don’t get out of B’ham much, so you would be much more knowledgable about where to meet in Seattle. It sounds like there are enough of us in the area that we could actually do this up right, given time. You can email me at [scotticher@netzone.com](mailto:scotticher@netzone.com) and I hope we can work this out. If no one else wants to come, we can have our own little mini-dopefest. But I think that there are enough people in this area that we could have a good sized group. What are you having done, if I may be so impolite as to ask? Whatever it is, hope it goes well. Scotti ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/off-to-seattle-another-vacation-thread/31730/24 "2000-09-03T04:42:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lawoot \* > \*\*Yes, it’s ANOTHER PNW doper - from the wrong side of the Sound (Bremerton) \*\* Shoot, lawoot, where do you get the idea that Bremerton is the wrong side of the sound? I would have thought that Bellingham was the wrong side of the tracks if such a thing existed in this “Oh So Mellow” part of the country. Hope we can count on meeting you if we manage to put this DopeFest together? Scotti 'kay, I just have to say that shoot, lawoot is gonna stick in my mind for eons. Where, may I be so bold as to ask, did you come up with lawoot? ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/off-to-seattle-another-vacation-thread/31730/25 "2000-09-03T04:49:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\*Geez, **Scotticher** , I totally missed that you were in B’ham! Next time I’m up we’ll have to have our own mini-Dopefest over some chicken-fried steak at Arlis’s. > \*\* You are on, Johnny, just let me know when you are going to be in town, and we will have a dopedate. Or a DopeFest, I think I recall that there is at least one other doper in this area, from Mt. Vernon, IIRC? Or maybe he/she decided to get a life outside of this board. Not that there is anything WRONG with that, but it seems inconceivable to me. Looking forward to it! Scotti ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/off-to-seattle-another-vacation-thread/31730/26 "2000-09-03T05:40:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > **Actually the flying in So. Cal. almost can’t be beat! I learned to fly in the high desert, where the sky is a huge blue bowl stretching from horizon to horizon.** Yeah, but flying where there is enough open space to land in an emergency is for wimps. 😉 Although the rocks and likelihood that you’d die of thirst before they found you is cool. In the high desert you can even get that huge blue bowl on the ground. In the PNW the sky is what’s directly above you. Flying and boating on the ocean would be the only ways to get a horizon. Some people like trees but these are farmed trees, in neat rows, all the same height–TALL. It’s claustrophobic. ---
**Author:** ![jessicala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jessicala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jessicala)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/off-to-seattle-another-vacation-thread/31730/27 "2000-09-04T08:12:39Z")
Scotti & pluto: I’m interested in meeting some Puget-Sound area dopers too (I’m in Bellevue). If I can help out in any way, let me know. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/off-to-seattle-another-vacation-thread/31730/28 "2000-09-04T15:33:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scotticher \* > [B’kay, I just have to say that shoot, lawoot is gonna stick in my mind for eons. Where, may I be so bold as to ask, did you come up with lawoot? \*\* It’s an old childhood nickname… I like trains, and when I was two I would see one and go “woot-woot”… and it stuck from there. I get up to B’ham about three times a year… I’ll have to look you up… ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/off-to-seattle-another-vacation-thread/31730/29 "2000-09-15T11:41:18Z")
> [@](#): > > where do you get the idea that Bremerton is the wrong side of the sound? I would have thought that Bellingham was the wrong side of the tracks if such a thing existed in this “Oh So Mellow” part of the country. Almost forgot… Bremerton is DEFINETELY the wrong side of the Sound. Unemployment’s higher, people are poorer, none (or almosts none) of the high tech jobs… Basically the Microsoft induced boom on the east side of the Sound never happened here. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/off-to-seattle-another-vacation-thread/31730/30 "2000-09-15T12:19:29Z")
I’m booking a flight to Seattle for early November. I’ll be looking for an apartment, and I want to rent it starting January. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/off-to-seattle-another-vacation-thread/31730/31 "2000-09-15T15:04:54Z")
Hi all, The LAST time we set up a doper meeting, it ended up being Pluto and myself chatting over Thai food, as no one else showed up 🙂 However, we should all meet. I currently live in Redmond, but am looking for a house in Sammamish or Issahquah. We should all get together someday, somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![herownself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8baadc/32.png) [@herownself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herownself)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/off-to-seattle-another-vacation-thread/31730/32 "2000-09-15T17:39:05Z")
I had no idea there were so many local dopers! Cervaise and I live in Seattle, and we would be up for a PNW dopefest. I’d been thinking of starting a thread about it, … and here it is. So, what do y’all think? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/off-to-seattle-another-vacation-thread/31730/33 "2000-09-15T17:51:39Z")
Just got my tix. I’ll be in or near Seattle **November 13-17**. If anyone knows of any jobs that I can start in January, I’d love to hear about them! (I think I can live on about half of what I’m currently making. So I’ll consider data-entry for 10 bucks and hour, and work my way back up from there!) ---
**Author:** ![ren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@ren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ren)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2000, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/off-to-seattle-another-vacation-thread/31730/34 "2000-09-15T18:02:41Z")
This thread started two weeks ago and only now do I notice it. Greetings fellow Puget Sound dopers. I been thinkin’ about getting a DopeFest on up here since someone (pluto? Scotticher?) mentioned the idea in the “Where you from?” thread. I live near Green Lake in Seattle. Mebbe we should start a roll call thread and see just how many we could pull into a fest… Just the sorta thing to brighten up my first rainy season in Seattle (just got here in February). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/off-to-seattle-another-vacation-thread/31730.md?page=1)