things'll be great when you're downtown

see that mountain in the back? i live on the highest street built on it. the red arrow is one of our office windows. the one i look out from faces the east side of the picture.

Today was my first day driving in 2006 and exactly two weeks since the last time I got behind the wheel. I didn’t drive in Seattle, which is for the best since the plethora of streets, highways, vehicles and exits would have frustrated me. In Juneau, there is one main road that runs from one end of the city to the other. It’s called “the Road”, and it follows the waterfront, and you can’t get lost. If you do, it’s because you must have crashed into the Channel and a lungful of water can make anyone befuddled.

We braved downtown Seattle just once while I was there to visit Pike Market and the Elliot Bay Bookstore. Since we parked at Seattle Center, it was some twenty odd blocks or so, one way. The entirety of downtown Juneau on the other hand can be walked in fifteen minutes and that includes getting chai tea at Heritage Coffee.