Hello from Seattle, WA

Been here for a few days now. Staying and hanging out with a variety of different UPSers. Long story short, I always have a good time in Seattle. Seattle would have been on a very short list of cities to move to if I hadn't been set on San Francisco. The two cities are pretty similar, if you ask me. The one negative is that I seem to be coming down with something. That was bound to happen.

Anyway, I'm kind of on the home stretch of the trip now. Gonna hit Portland for a few days. Then see some family in Philomath, OR. Then make my way down to Sacremento before heading to San Fran. Gonna be a good time.

Colorado was pretty awesome. In Denver I stayed with my buddy Matt from study abroad. Good to hang out with him as it had been a while. Sprinkled in a few meals with a few other UPS kids while there as well. I'd never spent much time in Denver prior to this. Just the airport. Never really heard anyone say anything bad about it, and I have to agree. Just a very nice, very livable city. One thing I've noticed on this trip is that many of the people I've stayed with are living pretty well. Then I think about how I'm moving to expensive-as-all-hell San Francisco, and it's a bit depressing, since I'll be living with my Dad first, and then once I get my life figured out, I'll probably move to some small scummy appartment. But it will be fine. I'll get to go to hella Giants games.

After Denver I went to Steamboat Springs, CO. A nice small quiet mountain town. One day/night there was a BBQ/lawn games/lots of drinking. The next night we watched the LOST finale, which I have mixed feelings about. My biggest small beef: Sayid should be with Nadia (not Shannon). My biggest big beef: turns out the island wasn't all that hard to save after all. But they did end it, and they ended it a way that I didn't see coming, which on some levels is all you can ask for. My other big beef: I plan on watching the series again at some point, and let's say I'm watching it with someone who hasn't seen it before. There would be so many times where I could turn to that person and say "don't worry about that--it's not important". And that's kind of a shame.

Next I went to Boise for a night, where John and Ben showed me a pretty good time for a Tuesday night. And then I came to Seattle, where, as I said before, I always tend to have a good time. Haven't really taken any pictures lately that are worth posting. There was a pretty decent waterfall I hiked to in Steamboat, but I'm not writing this from my computer, and I don't want to deal with that.

Next post will likely be from San Francisco. Hooray.