Day 11

After Yellowstone, we had a very long journey to Seattle. It took us a whole day of travel. When we were only 80 km away from destiny, we decided to stop in a MacDonald’s to spend the night as it was dark and we were too tired to keep on driving.

Ryan drove most of the day so he went to sleep right away. As I slept a little while he drove, I went into the MacDonald’s to use internet. While chequing my mails I could listen two toddlers speaking Spanish and I thought they may be Mexicans (as we saw some before). When I look, they were blond which what was surprising, since its rare to find blonde Mexicans, but I did not pay much attention. It was about 11pm when I decided to go to sleep. I open the door of the van and I think wait a minute, look back and the truck that was right beside us said Las lenas, the same name as a very touristic place in Argentina. I thought it can not be possible, I went to check the plate and yes!!! It was from Argentina. I run to the van I scream Ryan, Ryan the truck besides us is from Argentina, but it was not surprising enough for him to wake up. I went to the Mac Donald’s and I saw a couple that I instantly recognised as Argentineans (I do not know why) and asked: is the truck with the trailer in the parking yours??. The guy responded yes with a face of surprise and I guess fear too. So it is a family from Las Lenas (a place very well known there for skiing), Argentina. Laura, Daniel, facundo and Mora left on January, they went first to Ushuaia (southest city of Arg and I guess from America) and are heading to Alaska. We stayed a couple of hours talking about their trip, things back home, little about our trip that still is very short and they gave us lots of advices and information. That night I could not sleep at all thinking about such a coincidence.

Next day we drove one hour and we were in Seattle, the capital of the Grunge, home of music bands as Pearl Jam and Nirvana, and the place to have good coffee and fresh sea food.

We walked all morning along the coast, the freshness and smell of the air in the coast brought me memories from Mar del Plata (my home town), also the big hills, that when going up makes you forget about all the good things they have. We went to this Pike Market (as recommended by Liz) where they sell fresh sea food. It was a very nice to walk, the guys in the stands make a show out of the fish selling. They sing all together each time they make a sale and through the bags with the fish trough the air. Also there was a street band playing Hillbilly music that made people around very happy and even sing and dance. The fish was inexpensive but offcourse still far from our budgets.

After spending all day in Seattle we left the city to go around the Olympic Peninsula. We are going to drive the 101 highway from beginning (in Olympia, WA) to the end (Los Angeles, CA).

Hugs,

Aceituna crew.

Diego or Ryan taking a swim in the river (We cant tell who it is, guess) 

Lunch by the river after Yellowstone

The truck and trailer of the Argentinian family

The Argentinian family + Diego

By the water in Seattle

Pikes Market

The Hillbilly Band (The Tallboys)

City skyline

Steep roads of Seattle