{"id":497,"date":"2013-01-12T10:48:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T16:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travway.net\/?p=497"},"modified":"2013-01-12T10:48:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T16:48:58","slug":"seattle-trip-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/2013\/01\/12\/seattle-trip-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Trip Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So earlier I was talking about our tenth year anniversary and where we should go. \u00a0We have really narrowed it down to two options. \u00a0Here is the first \u00a0(the second will come tomorrow). \u00a0Since I will have three lists in this post, I will use as WordPress calls them ordered and unordered list. \u00a0Which is to say numbered and\u00a0bulleted\u00a0lists. \u00a0Got it?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We would leave for Minneapolis sometime in the afternoon. \u00a0Have supper with my cousin \u00a0or a gaming\/work friend.<\/li>\n<li>At about 9:30 PM we would make our way to the Midway Amtrak station between St. Paul and Minneapolis to catch the 11:15 Empire Builder west.<\/li>\n<li>Spend the next 37 hours on the train as we go to Seattle in \u00a0Roomette.<\/li>\n<li>Arrive in Seattle, get a car, get lunch visit the Seattle sights.<\/li>\n<li>Check into hotel, grab dinner<\/li>\n<li>Full day in the area, drive to Astoria, Oregon and back via Aberdeen.<\/li>\n<li>Partial day in Seattle, check out return car and hop on Pacific\u00a0Coast liner\u00a0to Portland, Oregon.<\/li>\n<li>From Portland a short layover then back on the Empire Builder to\u00a0Minneapolis. \u00a0It&#8217;s about $100 cheaper to do this versus leave from Seattle.<\/li>\n<li>Spend the next 37 hours on the train as we return to Minneapolis.<\/li>\n<li>Arrive in Minneapolis at 7AMish, drive back home.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not bad really, here are the pro&#8217;s and cons<\/p>\n<p>Pros<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A nice long break with scenic sights<\/li>\n<li>Go someplace both of us have never been before<\/li>\n<li>Gives us a taste of Montana (might want to go there\u00a0exclusively\u00a0someday)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cons<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 12px\">Expensive, the train trip alone would be $1700ish<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Someone will\u00a0probably\u00a0sleep a lot and miss many sights.<\/li>\n<li>Outside of sight seeing not much else to do since we are not big fishers, hikers, or shoppers<\/li>\n<li>The time needed for kid care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While the cons outweigh the pros, we are still keeping this as an option. \u00a0Tune in tomorrow for option 2!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So earlier I was talking about our tenth year anniversary and where we should go. \u00a0We have really narrowed it down to two options. \u00a0Here is the first \u00a0(the second will come tomorrow). \u00a0Since I will have three lists in this post, I will use as WordPress calls them ordered and unordered list. \u00a0Which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffee-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}