eureka

i am currently in eureka. last night i was staying in eugene. when i got there after being lost for quite a while the guy on the desk said that i didn't have a reservation so instead of getting a private room i had to share which was ok i suppose except that i was looking forward to being by myself.

seattle was really good. i went to the top of the space needle in seattle. it was foggy when i got to the top but after half an hour the fog lifted and the view was fantastic. candice recommended an underground tour that is run in seattle so went on the tour. it was really good.

the original seattle was built on mud flats and the town kept getting flooded with every high tide. when they got toilets in the early 1900s the toilets would reverse flow at high tide. apparently there were '4 foot' geysers. when the city burnt down the told everyone that they had to build all the shops with a ground floor entry and a first floor entry. the city built stone walls on all the 'curbs' and filled in the street with dirt, raising the street level 3ish meters. so to cross the street ppl had to climb ladders to get onto the street and then climb down ladders to get on to the foot path. eventually they build foot paths the join the street with the first floor entries. for a while both the first and ground floors where being used unitl there was a rat plague in the underground part. the ground floor of some of the shops are stilll accessable. this is what the tour is of.


tomorrow i am going to san fransisco.

sarah