Or "Seattle--the city with amazingly *CRAPPY* street signage"
Armed with my maps, I took off for the rental car counter. Okay, does anyone park any further from the amenities than Alaska? A goodly trot later, I found the counter, and a staffer who was in need of someone, anyone to talk to. I spent about 10 minutes at the counter kibbitzing before I took the car stuff and left.
Off to get the car...
Okay, the one thing I try to do before I take the car anywhere is to find out where the goodies are. There's nothing like trying to find WTF did they put the headlight controls on an unfamiliar car while in the hurry in the dark to make it a fairly unhappy time.
Everything checked out fine except for the seat adjustments. Look, I'm a strapping 5 ft 6, okay? I need the driver's seat to be in the same county as the steering wheel!
I reached under the seat and found the control. I also found a lump of silicone grease that had been used on the mechanism. Whee....
I took off, wanting to avoid the crush leaving the Seahawks game. The map said to take 99N and make a "slight right" at 6th ave N. Well, if there is signage off the 99N for 6th av N, it is cleverly hidden. I overshot the exit, and found myself on Aurora, which doesn't want to let you go until you get on the other side of the bridge. I drove back, and when I noticed that there wasn't a 6th ave N exit either, I said "well I *know* where Lake Union is, the hell with it", and cut over, where I finally found Mercer and on to Westlake.
Now, the place I need to go tomorrow is off of Aurora. I have two choices--I can drive Westlake to the Fremont bridge and cut back, or I can try to find a way back onto 99N/Aurora and go more directly. Right now, I think I'll use the former unless someone who is a heck of a lot more familiar with the area has a clue for me.
I did manage to pull into the hotel about 30 seconds before the next rain came rolling in, so that was a good thing.
Now it's a bath, and book and to bed early tonight so I can get an early start tomorrow--just in case they've closed the bridge or something, and didn't bother to tell anyone.
Posted by lsefton at November 16, 2003 07:47 PM