Seattle Touristy Stuff 1

Over the last couple of days I've manged to finally get some touristy stuff done in Seattle. On Monday I picked up a hire car in Belleview, a 2011 Holden/Chevrolet Cruz. This car has been extremely useful for getting around here, as public transport seems to be pretty ordinary. I guess is a very car focused city. Anyway, on Tuesday I got all my bike insurance organised through a broker then rang around the USA for 3 and half hours trying to source a Kawasaki Concours Luggage box (sits behind the pillion seat). I finally found one down south (the lady on the phone was very fond of my accent) and it arrived today.

So this meant I had Wednesday and Thursday free to do some stuff in Seattle. I thought I would consult Jessica and Jason's very awesome notebooks and try tick off some of the things they suggested.

First off I drove to the Fremont district to see the troll under the bridge. I didn't know what to expect, but I defiantly did not think it was going to be that big. It is 18 foot tall.

The [Fremont Troll] was the winner of a competition sponsored by the Fremont Arts Council in 1990, in part with the goal of rehabilitating the area under the bridge which was becoming a dumping ground and haven for drug dealers. It was built later that same year. The idea of a troll living under a bridge is derived from the Scandinavian folk tale "Three Billy Goats Gruff." -Wikipedia 

Next I decided to drive to Bruce Lee's grave. It was a pretty large cemetery, so I initially didn't know where to start looking. However after a quick web search (thank god for Google and smart phones), I found some grave locator site (kinda creepy) which gave me the exact GPS coordinates that I could punch into my phone and walk right to it. Brandon Lee's grave was right next to Bruce's. There were quite a few continuous visitors to the grave, many left coin donations.There were also a fair few flowers and even a child's drawing, I suppose his popularity is still very strong.