Day 24 June 29, 2021 Trail's End Comment via blog

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Breakfast at the Summit Pancake House was OK but unexciting. The view through the window helped. The price on that gas station sign is $4.499. The price at the next station I came to was $3.699. The next station is a long way away.

The old road the Denny Creek Campground is now one-way eastbound so I had to take I-90 to the next exit and come back past the campground. Driving into the sun among the trees meant I got some really bad pictures and a few tolerable ones. The combination of the forced expressway drive and glaring sunlight caused me to forget to look for the original Yellowstone Trail marker near the campground. At least that's my story.

The sign in the background contains a little information about the 1913 Red Brick Road on the east side of Redmond. Like almost all aging brick roads everywhere, this one is the target of complaints from commuters and such, but for the time being, all 2.3 miles of it are safe.

I'm pretty sure I've never seen this side of Seattle before. This is I-90 entering the city over Washington Lake.

Seattle's Pioneer Square was the official western terminus of the Yellowstone Trail. I snapped the first picture as soon as I reached it. I then parked and walked back to take the others. There are numerous homeless people living in Seattle and that includes Pioneer Square. The tents are not good decoration but photographs of them are realistic documentation.

I also walked down to the waterfront to visit Ivar and his gulls -- and to get a cup of his chowder.

There is a brewery less than a mile from Ivar's and I probably had enough time left on my parking to make it there and back but I just didn't have the gumption to tackle it in the mid-90s heat. My celebratory beer was poured and consumed at the 7 Seas Brewery in Tacoma.

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