As a former Seattlite I must inform you that you broke a cardinal rule. We do not tell people outside the state that it actually is sunny. We try to keep the Californians from coming by saying it rains all the time ;-). Glad you liked my home town. I miss it sometimes.
If you'd hopped on the Monorail you could've ridden it to the Space Needle....and back....it's just a novelty, really. It was built in the early 1960s and never expanded because, well, monorails actually kind of suck. Luckily Seattle has excellent light rail that does the real work of getting people around town.
Beautiful day in Seattle. We had heat of 115 degrees F last year. We do like to tell people it rains here all the time so they won't move here. LOL! It's too bad you could not get out to the local Islands. The ferry ride and the Island experiences are amazing and breathtaking. -Cheers from the PNW and safe travels. 😊
I'm so glad you got to visit Seattle, even for a short time! New York, California, & Texas get most of the US travel press, but you could spend a lifetime exploring all the things that the PNW has to offer. BTW, that was a great group of enthusiastic viewers to welcome you at the Irish pub.
Stuff about Seattle: The monorail does "look pretty good" but that's really all it does. That, and complicate traffic. You'll never wont for a hearty breakfast here- Breakfast in Seattle is practically a fetish. Don't miss the buskers. Also, don't _dis_ the buskers. A lot of them are extremely talented, and more importantly, they work _really hard_ . A list of less-touristy destinations: Green Lake The Arboretum Golden Gardens and/or Carkeek Park The Center of the Universe in Fremont. The Fremont Troll Gasworks Park Ballard Locks A million lovely pubs.
If buskers truly have talent, then they should find a proper venue instead of forcing passersby to become unwitting audience members. There's a Fry & Laurie sketch that pretty much sums up my feelings about buskers: th-cam.com/video/fzBQjBvFQVw/w-d-xo.html
The Monorail goes from Westlake Center to Seattle Center. That's not insignificant. A great way to get from central downtown to the Space Needle. Tourists and locals use it. And it's cool.
Hey! It's us! Great get together! And love seeing folks enjoy my home town! A couple fun add-ons to the video: In the Simpsons Monorail episode, when the train starts to run out of control, the sticker that says "Springfield Monorail" peels back to reveal a sticker that says "Worlds Fair 1964" which is referencing that the Seattle Monorail that was built for the Words Fair (But in 1962, not 1964. The same World's fair that gave us the Space Needle and the Seattle Center Coliseum as well). They're saying the Springfield Monorail IS the recycled Seattle Monorail. The Seattle Worlds Fair line was just a demonstration of the technology, so it has only 2 stops and runs only about 1-1/2 miles from the Seattle Center grounds to Downtown. There were plans in the early 2000's to build a full fledged 15mi long monorail line from Ballard to West Seattle through Downtown, but the project fell victim to budget issues and was eventually cancelled. They're now planning an extension to the light rail system on the same route that will be done in 2035. The "Original Starbucks" is not actually the "first" Starbucks location. The "first" location that opened in 1971 was located just 300ft North from the "Original" at Western Ave and Virginia St. The building that housed it (The old Hotel Conklin Building) was demolished in 1976, so they moved just down to road to its current location. So it's still the oldest Starbucks location remaining, but not the first (For locals, Seatown Pub now occupies the corner location of the first Starbucks). They also weren't a café when they first opened. It was more like a retail tea shop where people mostly bought bags of whole bean coffee (like you get in the grocery store aisles) instead of made to order beverages and food. It was Howard Schultz, who they hired as a sales rep in 1982, who started them on the idea that they should make their retail spaces into European style coffee houses/cafes (after he attended a coffee trade show in Milan). He eventually took over the company and is still their CEO to this day. Hope the trip is going well and looking forward to the California, Texas, and Chicago videos!
Seattle used to be an absolute gem. There have been many problems that have wrecked it thanks to leadership policies. Thanks for the love, wish you could have seen it 20 years ago.
Seattle native here- totally agree. Poorly run is an understatement. I miss the vibe of the people tho… and the good food and great coffee. Big tech kind of ruined it tho- whole neighborhoods I don’t recognize, tent cities due to ridiculous housing price increases, tech bros… I miss Seattle from 20 years ago too…
Seattle native checking in. Glad you enjoyed our town. I bestow upon you the title of Honorary Seattelite because not ONCE did you call it Pike's Place Market. I'm sorry the line for the original Starbucks was so long, there are literally 4 more in a 2 block radius, but honestly can we agree SB is not great coffee...it's just *convenient* coffee. The better tourist visit IMO would be to the Starbucks Reserve Roastery at 1124 pike..It's their test kitchen so to speak. The coffee is actually better depending on what you ordered and is waaaay less busy. If has truly unique offerings including alcohol too, so that's kinda neat. I used to walk through Pike Place on my way to work every day and the gumwall is indeed not right. I used to party in the area in the 90s when it started and it had to do with young grunge enthusiasts (myself included) staging impromptu mosh parties in that alley as several grunge music clubs kind of emptied there. Gumming up the wall was kind of a FU to the man while we thrashdanced to boomboxes on foggy 3am mornings. I'm even surprised it's become a tourist attraction. I hope you're still in town, you should definitely get over to Alki Beach or Golden Gardens beach for a sunset if possible. Also check out Volunteer Park. It's a strange old park. Kind of the SEA answer to Central Park, but with a graveyard attached. The Asian Museum + Botanical Garden is a great reason to hit Volunteer Park by itself.
People calling Pike Place, "Pike's Place Market" really bugs me too .. my mom does it all the time even though I've lived here since '98 😅 (but she doesn't so I guess that's ok haha).
Yes to all of this!! I was thinking they should see most of the same places & would skip the gum wall & any Starbucks & instead add in Chihuly Garden & glass!
You want to go to Ivar's Fish Bar in Seattle. They have delicious fish and chips and sandwiches, clam chowder. Lots of great Japanese, Chinese,Korean, and Filipino places too.
The gum wall grosses me out, I’d skip it. I lived on the Olympic peninsula for 20 years - beautiful country there. Glad you enjoyed the biscuits and gravy- it’s a classic American breakfast dish.
@@shaunvlog All gravy really is, is a white sauce with sausage broken in it, often made with the grease from the sausage for added flavor. Of course, there are endless variations.
Ahh my old stomping grounds. So glad you got to see Pike Place Market, the old historic district cobblestone, waterfront, gum alley, etc. It's fun to watch the guys tossing the fish to each other at the market. I'm a Seattle native, but I don't get the gum wall either. I'm not sure if they still do tours, but there's an underground Seattle too. In 1889 the original Seattle burned down and they raised the street level. There's a hidden underground city as a result. Legends say it's haunted down there.
Im so sad that I was out of town when u visited. I have been recommending that come visit Seattle for years. I'm so glad u finally got to see our beautiful city. I wish there was more Seattle footage, especially if you went to Mount Rainier, to any of the beaches, the old growth forest (Grove of the Patriarchs is my fav) with the unfathomably enormous trees, out on the ferries in Puget Sound to the islands, to Mount St. Helens, or up to the rainforest in northern Washington. There is so much beautiful scenery to be enjoyed. I hope one day you will come back when you have time to spend a week or two in order to see it all. If you already did, I hope there's footage so we can hear what you thought!
Woohoo so glad you got to go to Seattle, I hoped you enjoyed your stay and got to go see Kells Irish pub, Seattle is known for street music and street art.
@@mygreatescape9617 My band played there, in the bar, on St. Pat's one year, and it was terrifying. 😆 The bar is in this long, narrow concrete bunker of a room, door and bar at the front, stage at the very back. On St. Pat's it was packed well over capacity, and if for any reason we needed to leave in a hurry, it would not have gone well at all. I've never felt so trapped. But I don't want to speak ill of the business in general. The food really is very good.
That Simpson’s monorail episode is golden! Written by the great Conan O’Brien. Love that you watch the Simpsons. Now what do you think of grounds keeper Willie??
I'm loving your travel vlogs. Just want you to know how eagerly I wait until the next one gets posted. I'm so glad you visited my area and I'm excited to see what happens in California and Texas. Love to you and your beautiful wife!
YAbout the breakfast: looked delicious, but I bet it would've been even better with a wee bit of Tabasco... So now you've visited the part of the country with weather most like Scotland. That would be a narrow band of valleys between the coast range on the west and the Cascades on the east stretching from Seattle down through Portland and on to Eugene about 110 miles south of Portland. The Pacific coast is wetter and milder. Everyplace else has greater extremes in temperature. But the majority of the population lives in that narrow corridor.
Born-and-bred Seattleite here, so glad you got to see my city. I actually live not far from the Market and I wish I had known you were here! Here's a couple of tips/observations from what I have seen of the video so far: Biscuit Bitch is da bomb! There is another one close to me in Belltown and I order all side dishes there. I get a biscuit with honey (their biscuits are so good they deserve to be eaten without anything added) a side of scrambled eggs, a side of crispy fried spam, and a side of gravy to take home. That is not exactly the first Starbucks. The first one was across the street but the building was torn down and turned into a high raise so they moved into the present location. The tourists all want to know where the first Starbucks was so they just tell them that. I agree with your opinion of Starbucks coffee, independent shops here are way better. They do sell nice big mugs there so my favorite coffee mug is one with tourist motifs.
There is a good book about a guy who got fired from a big, fancy corporate job and decided to take a job at Starbucks out of desperation after a long, unsuccessful job hunt. The story line tells how this middle aged man comes to love the job of a barista more and more as the months and years go by. The title is Starbucks Saved My Life.
The original Starbucks, in the Pike Street Market, did not SERVE coffee! There was no espresso machine in the shop. It carried coffee beans that you could buy (they would grind them for you. Or you could buy small coffee grinders there), as well as lovely big chunks of the most delicious chocolate (milk choc, dark choc and white choc (which isn't technically choc) in glass canisters). I bought a beautiful Chinese pressed tea brick there (in the early 70s)... which I still have!
That "sauce" you just ate was biscuit and gravy sauce :-) So, you've officially eaten American Biscuits and Gravy. Enjoy your continued wander around the country!
I have to say again, epic road trip. I usually plan my trips in a circle - start at Glasgow, up to the inner Hebrides, over to Inverness, (maybe up to Thurso),down to Edinburgh, back to Glasgow. But the scale of your trip is truly epic. That’s so much land to cover! Come to Philadelphia and eastern Pennsylvania the next time you visit the US. I can offer you room in an 1890s posh farmhouse, very Americana.
Even most of us Seattlites don't care for Starbucks as our favorite coffee, but we drink it anyway. 😆 Glad you got a nice day, here. The gum wall IS pretty nasty, but it's like a train wreck, you gotta look. I'm sad my beautiful city is not what it used to be, in many respects, but there are still some wonderful elements, Pike Place Market being one. I used to work at the Space Needle, so I'm partial to it's history and that of the Monorail and the Seattle World's Fair. Im excited to see more of you videos and I hope you get to see more of the area. it's beautiful (the weather's been a bit crap, as of late, but summer doesn't officially start until after the 4th of July here, anyway. ok. Except last year. June 26 it was 118°F on my back deck. Too much for this soggy Seattle-born. 😆😉)
The Monorail was built for the 1962 World Fair....Still running! Next time in town check out the troll under the bridge in Fremont ...just north of Seattle.
Seattle was the greatest in the eighties. The music scene, funky neighborhoods, old timers, artists, hangers on, just crazy but great. Before the tech explosion and insane real estate prices, insane rents which fed in to the current housing and homeless crisis. Before fucking Starbucks. Before gentrification. It was gritty, rainy, funky and somehow warm and homey. People were more friendly, more easy going, more open. It was a brilliant time to live there.
Seattle is an amazing place to visit and explore! You could easily be a tourist in the greater Seattle area for a month if you know all the cool spots, nevermind all the festivals and events that pop up all year long. I lived there for several years and felt like I got to "be a tourist" a hundred times, and I still missed some things!
Hey Shaun! Glad you got to visit Seattle. It truly is a beautiful city is that grew up around there. There’s so many things to see in Seattle and around Seattle. There’s actually an underground Seattle where the new Seattle was built on top of the old one. At least part of it. Back in the 1800s Seattle burn down to the ground and they actually have tours down there. Maybe sometime in the future you can go back and see Mount Saint Helens. That’s the mountain that blew up in the 80s.
Love it! I have lived in the PNW all my life, but have only been to Seattle one time. It was a fun experience, just have never made it back there again. Thanks for taking us along your journey!
I'm so happy for you two! So glad you've come back to visit and see.more! I don't think YT listed all of your videos... my fault for not checking your channel. I have some catching up to do!!
Funny you should mention The Simpsons monorail episode. Seattle had a "Life Imitates Art" moment with that. There was a plan to expand the monorail from just it's one little route that is left over from the World's Fair. This was post-Simpsons monorail episode. Won't go in to the whole story, but lets just say that it didn't happen, the city lost money, and local newspapers almost got in to trouble with (I think it was copyright infringement?) for making so many references to that episode.
The Simpsons was spot on. I reckon there was a company flogging monorails to gullible city councils all over the world. Sydney got one, in 1988, everyone hated it and it closed in 2013.
The best part of Pike Place is the warren of unique shops downstairs, and I distinctly remember Starbucks in a different and much more interesting (but small) spot before, up the hill a bit
egg aside, you just enjoyed biscuits and gravy! Hopefully, now you can say "I get it now!" I've never been there, but it looked really good. So glad to see you back in the states, too! Enjoy your trip!
Awww, I'm sorry! I didn't think to mention that some of the most interesting shops in the Market are downstairs. And there's a little restaurant down there with great views out over the water. I'm a BAD subscriber! Seattle has a funky side that I adore. And did no-one throw fish to the purchasers at the fish market? The shame! I hope you enjoyed it, anyway. Ivar's Acres of Clams restaurant is on the waterfront as well as the Aquarium and Ye Old Curiosity Shop .The Freeway Park is kinda cool, too. Wish I coulda flown up to drag ya'll around. Next time!
Next time visit Colorado! You will fall in love with my home state. 😇😀😈 We have a Highlander event in Estes Park every year, and all the local clans gather with their tartans.
That gum wall is grouse....I just love your videos you guys should move to the US....nice to see Teka, you both look great.....thanks for sharing because there's many of us nstill not travelling and can enjoy through you....brings some cheer to life........
Fantastic video, just found your page. I've lived in the Seattle area for 13 years now, and it's one of the best places in the county. If you're ever back this way, there's also a lot to see outside the city. I'm live in a small mountain town called Snoqualmie. We have a beautiful waterfall here, and right under brilliant Mount Si. Definitely worth a visit
It’s been a really rainy cold spring here so I’m glad you had a nice sunny day! Glad you had a good time! 😊 Also I’ve left a lot of gum on that gum wall over the years. Lol 😈
We have Peet's here in Seattle too! It's a terrific place to go coffee-touristing. Try out Peet's, Seattle's Best(SBC), Starbuck's, Tully's, and a whole lot of delicious single-shop coffee shops that are to die for. Then in the evening, you can switch up to visiting microbreweries! :D
@@yordanpopov Huhn! Y'know, apparently they don't! With the pandemic an' all, I completely failed to notice their disappearance. Shame, that. They made an absolutely wicked espresso milkshake!
Wow Shaun I've never been to Seattle, but again, because of your videos I really want to make the trip with Ed now. My brother and some of his family live on the other side of the state in Spokane, but that pales in comparison. I
I’m going to Seattle for the first time in August! So excited, doing a few days in the city then exploring Olympic National park for the rest of the week. Last west coast state to check off my list :) Glad you got to finally make it to the west coast and get some road tripping in…it’s the best way to explore the US!
Be careful, a ton of crime. Cars are being broke into and even stollen. Don’t leave anything of value in your car, and don’t think putting clothes over anything you don’t want stollen. I got this advice from the police before I went there to work for 13 weeks. If you see the parks there will be a ton of homeless people.
Have you been to any of the wilderness in the PNW? I’m assuming you’ve been into the Oregon wilderness? To me, it’s unlike anywhere else. Easy to get lost if you don’t get your bearings. Even if you are experienced, bad things can happen. Stay away from the mountain goats. Check over all the park rules ahead of time & preferably don’t go alone! Have a great time! We are going into Rainier in august. P.S. the last few years we have had bad air/smoke in August from wildfires. Hopefully, not this year. Fingers crossed.
@@aliciamarie9704 fYi, they removed the mountain goats out of the Olympic National Park where they weren't native. They now only reside only in the Cascades.
Also, as some commenters mentioned below, visit the Highlander festival in Estes Park, CO. Or just go to Estes Park. This time, you will really need to avoid the Moose and Bears. Unlike your visit to NC.
Normally this time of year is shorts weather, all sun, and starting to get hot. Not this year apparently, so it's nice that you did get some sun! I spent a year in Scotland decades ago (before deciding to move to Seattle), and love how similar the weather is.
If you have time and a car, drive to Mt. Rainier National Park, to Ohanapecosh River. The most beautiful crystal clear emerald green river I’ve ever seen. TONS of independent latte stands all over the NW that makes me wonder how Starbucks survives selling overpriced burnt coffee. So much available to do around Seattle. 90 minutes from the ocean sports to downhill snow skiing and everything in between. Loved my whole childhood there & moved back (to Enumclaw) for 25 years before moving to Hawaii. Enjoy!
When you get back to the Northeast you should try Sabrett frankfurters. They are also sold at stores in various other places in the US. But good luck finding them in the northeast even though there are a lot of people from the northeast out here.
That was just a normal breakfast, you got biscuits and gravy, with eggs and sausage on top of it. I am not a big biscuits and gravy guy, I usually get scramble eggs, sausage pattie or links, or bacon, hashbrowns, and sometimes they give you a plain biscuit or toast, you put butter and jelly on it. I like the big breakfast with hotcakes from McDonalds, or the loaded omlete sandwich from Hardee's.
I'm enjoying your latest round of US videos, Shaun. I'll be in Scotland in August if you wanna hang out, go fly drones, or just show a Yankee around Edinburgh. You're always welcome here in Denver, the Mile High City, mate. 🇺🇲🏴
Thanks for sharing(greetings from across the border in North Idaho; hope you enjoy the forests & mountains here if the winds ever take you this way); take care
Alright, Shaun, when you get here to Texas it will be hot. A tip, stay inside between noon and 6 p.m. You need to have barbecue brisket and real San Antonio tacos. Looking forward to you and your wife nd team having a good time here. I've been to Seattle. You'll appreciate the wide variety in climates and cultures here in the states.
As a former Seattlite I must inform you that you broke a cardinal rule. We do not tell people outside the state that it actually is sunny. We try to keep the Californians from coming by saying it rains all the time ;-). Glad you liked my home town. I miss it sometimes.
It basically rained here all of May. Jokes on them.
If you'd hopped on the Monorail you could've ridden it to the Space Needle....and back....it's just a novelty, really. It was built in the early 1960s and never expanded because, well, monorails actually kind of suck. Luckily Seattle has excellent light rail that does the real work of getting people around town.
built for the 1960 fair and it was an exhibition nothing more
Beautiful day in Seattle. We had heat of 115 degrees F last year. We do like to tell people it rains here all the time so they won't move here. LOL! It's too bad you could not get out to the local Islands. The ferry ride and the Island experiences are amazing and breathtaking. -Cheers from the PNW and safe travels. 😊
I'm so glad you got to visit Seattle, even for a short time! New York, California, & Texas get most of the US travel press, but you could spend a lifetime exploring all the things that the PNW has to offer. BTW, that was a great group of enthusiastic viewers to welcome you at the Irish pub.
Thank you Gregory, I hope to come back
Stuff about Seattle: The monorail does "look pretty good" but that's really all it does. That, and complicate traffic. You'll never wont for a hearty breakfast here- Breakfast in Seattle is practically a fetish. Don't miss the buskers. Also, don't _dis_ the buskers. A lot of them are extremely talented, and more importantly, they work _really hard_ .
A list of less-touristy destinations:
Green Lake
The Arboretum
Golden Gardens and/or Carkeek Park
The Center of the Universe in Fremont.
The Fremont Troll
Gasworks Park
Ballard Locks
A million lovely pubs.
If buskers truly have talent, then they should find a proper venue instead of forcing passersby to become unwitting audience members. There's a Fry & Laurie sketch that pretty much sums up my feelings about buskers: th-cam.com/video/fzBQjBvFQVw/w-d-xo.html
The Ballard Locks can be fun if you like seeing drunk women flashing their boobies after SeaFair wraps up.
The Monorail goes from Westlake Center to Seattle Center. That's not insignificant. A great way to get from central downtown to the Space Needle. Tourists and locals use it. And it's cool.
Sausage gravy. Comfort food ❤️🔥
Hey! It's us! Great get together! And love seeing folks enjoy my home town!
A couple fun add-ons to the video:
In the Simpsons Monorail episode, when the train starts to run out of control, the sticker that says "Springfield Monorail" peels back to reveal a sticker that says "Worlds Fair 1964" which is referencing that the Seattle Monorail that was built for the Words Fair (But in 1962, not 1964. The same World's fair that gave us the Space Needle and the Seattle Center Coliseum as well). They're saying the Springfield Monorail IS the recycled Seattle Monorail. The Seattle Worlds Fair line was just a demonstration of the technology, so it has only 2 stops and runs only about 1-1/2 miles from the Seattle Center grounds to Downtown. There were plans in the early 2000's to build a full fledged 15mi long monorail line from Ballard to West Seattle through Downtown, but the project fell victim to budget issues and was eventually cancelled. They're now planning an extension to the light rail system on the same route that will be done in 2035.
The "Original Starbucks" is not actually the "first" Starbucks location. The "first" location that opened in 1971 was located just 300ft North from the "Original" at Western Ave and Virginia St. The building that housed it (The old Hotel Conklin Building) was demolished in 1976, so they moved just down to road to its current location. So it's still the oldest Starbucks location remaining, but not the first (For locals, Seatown Pub now occupies the corner location of the first Starbucks). They also weren't a café when they first opened. It was more like a retail tea shop where people mostly bought bags of whole bean coffee (like you get in the grocery store aisles) instead of made to order beverages and food. It was Howard Schultz, who they hired as a sales rep in 1982, who started them on the idea that they should make their retail spaces into European style coffee houses/cafes (after he attended a coffee trade show in Milan). He eventually took over the company and is still their CEO to this day.
Hope the trip is going well and looking forward to the California, Texas, and Chicago videos!
This is great - thanks so much for sharing these details. I had no idea
Seattle used to be an absolute gem. There have been many problems that have wrecked it thanks to leadership policies. Thanks for the love, wish you could have seen it 20 years ago.
Seattle native here- totally agree. Poorly run is an understatement. I miss the vibe of the people tho… and the good food and great coffee. Big tech kind of ruined it tho- whole neighborhoods I don’t recognize, tent cities due to ridiculous housing price increases, tech bros… I miss Seattle from 20 years ago too…
live in the present - every city changes
Seattle native checking in. Glad you enjoyed our town. I bestow upon you the title of Honorary Seattelite because not ONCE did you call it Pike's Place Market.
I'm sorry the line for the original Starbucks was so long, there are literally 4 more in a 2 block radius, but honestly can we agree SB is not great coffee...it's just *convenient* coffee. The better tourist visit IMO would be to the Starbucks Reserve Roastery at 1124 pike..It's their test kitchen so to speak. The coffee is actually better depending on what you ordered and is waaaay less busy. If has truly unique offerings including alcohol too, so that's kinda neat.
I used to walk through Pike Place on my way to work every day and the gumwall is indeed not right. I used to party in the area in the 90s when it started and it had to do with young grunge enthusiasts (myself included) staging impromptu mosh parties in that alley as several grunge music clubs kind of emptied there. Gumming up the wall was kind of a FU to the man while we thrashdanced to boomboxes on foggy 3am mornings. I'm even surprised it's become a tourist attraction.
I hope you're still in town, you should definitely get over to Alki Beach or Golden Gardens beach for a sunset if possible. Also check out Volunteer Park. It's a strange old park. Kind of the SEA answer to Central Park, but with a graveyard attached. The Asian Museum + Botanical Garden is a great reason to hit Volunteer Park by itself.
People calling Pike Place, "Pike's Place Market" really bugs me too .. my mom does it all the time even though I've lived here since '98 😅 (but she doesn't so I guess that's ok haha).
Yes to all of this!! I was thinking they should see most of the same places & would skip the gum wall & any Starbucks & instead add in Chihuly Garden & glass!
You want to go to Ivar's Fish Bar in Seattle. They have delicious fish and chips and sandwiches, clam chowder. Lots of great Japanese, Chinese,Korean, and Filipino places too.
Lol “sauce” on biscuits is gravy here
"the sauce" was sausage gravy. What you had was biscuits and gravy with eggs and sausage on top.
The gum wall grosses me out, I’d skip it. I lived on the Olympic peninsula for 20 years - beautiful country there. Glad you enjoyed the biscuits and gravy- it’s a classic American breakfast dish.
The breakfast was delicious
@@shaunvlog All gravy really is, is a white sauce with sausage broken in it, often made with the grease from the sausage for added flavor. Of course, there are endless variations.
So gross! Why??? Yuk!!!
I'm from Port Angeles, in New Orleans now. Where did you live on the Olympic Peninsula
@@jackielandry8690 Port Townsend!
I do love Seattle and Washington state as a whole. I am fortunate to have made it my home.
That is gravy. You had biscuits and gravy topped with egg and sausage.
Welcome to Seattle!! It's great to see our city through a tourist's eyes. :)
Seattle has so much good food!
Ahh my old stomping grounds. So glad you got to see Pike Place Market, the old historic district cobblestone, waterfront, gum alley, etc. It's fun to watch the guys tossing the fish to each other at the market. I'm a Seattle native, but I don't get the gum wall either. I'm not sure if they still do tours, but there's an underground Seattle too. In 1889 the original Seattle burned down and they raised the street level. There's a hidden underground city as a result. Legends say it's haunted down there.
There are still tours available!
Im so sad that I was out of town when u visited. I have been recommending that come visit Seattle for years. I'm so glad u finally got to see our beautiful city. I wish there was more Seattle footage, especially if you went to Mount Rainier, to any of the beaches, the old growth forest (Grove of the Patriarchs is my fav) with the unfathomably enormous trees, out on the ferries in Puget Sound to the islands, to Mount St. Helens, or up to the rainforest in northern Washington. There is so much beautiful scenery to be enjoyed. I hope one day you will come back when you have time to spend a week or two in order to see it all. If you already did, I hope there's footage so we can hear what you thought!
Unfortunately I only had time to spend 2 days in each place
Woohoo so glad you got to go to Seattle, I hoped you enjoyed your stay and got to go see Kells Irish pub, Seattle is known for street music and street art.
Kells used to be a funeral home. :D Also, the pub part is a terrifying place to play music. Good food, but way over-priced.
@@Kaotiqua yeah I've been to Kells Irish pub and let me say I got weird vibes when I was there a few years ago and I have not been back since
@@mygreatescape9617 My band played there, in the bar, on St. Pat's one year, and it was terrifying. 😆 The bar is in this long, narrow concrete bunker of a room, door and bar at the front, stage at the very back. On St. Pat's it was packed well over capacity, and if for any reason we needed to leave in a hurry, it would not have gone well at all. I've never felt so trapped. But I don't want to speak ill of the business in general. The food really is very good.
@@Kaotiqua yes the food is awesome very true
Are there scary stories associated? Wait till you see some of the dungeons we call pubs in Scotland 😅
I guess you were very lucky to find sunshine in Seattle. A friend of mine once told me, "You don't tan in Seattle... You rust!" 🤣
Haha makes sense
Summers are pretty much all sunshine except this year...
Though last year especially you would've just fried in our 100+ degrees heatwave!
the rain cliche is so overrated. the rain is light and we still do more outside activities than most of the country. More boats per capita as well.
That Simpson’s monorail episode is golden! Written by the great Conan O’Brien. Love that you watch the Simpsons. Now what do you think of grounds keeper Willie??
I'm loving your travel vlogs. Just want you to know how eagerly I wait until the next one gets posted. I'm so glad you visited my area and I'm excited to see what happens in California and Texas. Love to you and your beautiful wife!
Me too!!
I very much appreciate that - thank you very much. It keeps me going when I feel down so thank you 😊
YAbout the breakfast: looked delicious, but I bet it would've been even better with a wee bit of Tabasco... So now you've visited the part of the country with weather most like Scotland. That would be a narrow band of valleys between the coast range on the west and the Cascades on the east stretching from Seattle down through Portland and on to Eugene about 110 miles south of Portland. The Pacific coast is wetter and milder. Everyplace else has greater extremes in temperature. But the majority of the population lives in that narrow corridor.
It’s a stunning part of the world
I love biscuits and gravy with eggs. Seattle is such a great city. It's nice to see it get its proppers!!!
My father was born in Seattle. The USS Seattle was the longest in-commission cruiser in the US Navy. That's all I've got to add 🤣
Thanks for sharing
Born-and-bred Seattleite here, so glad you got to see my city. I actually live not far from the Market and I wish I had known you were here! Here's a couple of tips/observations from what I have seen of the video so far: Biscuit Bitch is da bomb! There is another one close to me in Belltown and I order all side dishes there. I get a biscuit with honey (their biscuits are so good they deserve to be eaten without anything added) a side of scrambled eggs, a side of crispy fried spam, and a side of gravy to take home. That is not exactly the first Starbucks. The first one was across the street but the building was torn down and turned into a high raise so they moved into the present location. The tourists all want to know where the first Starbucks was so they just tell them that. I agree with your opinion of Starbucks coffee, independent shops here are way better. They do sell nice big mugs there so my favorite coffee mug is one with tourist motifs.
There is a good book about a guy who got fired from a big, fancy corporate job and decided to take a job at Starbucks out of desperation after a long, unsuccessful job hunt. The story line tells how this middle aged man comes to love the job of a barista more and more as the months and years go by.
The title is Starbucks Saved My Life.
The original Starbucks, in the Pike Street Market, did not SERVE coffee! There was no espresso machine in the shop. It carried coffee beans that you could buy (they would grind them for you. Or you could buy small coffee grinders there), as well as lovely big chunks of the most delicious chocolate (milk choc, dark choc and white choc (which isn't technically choc) in glass canisters). I bought a beautiful Chinese pressed tea brick there (in the early 70s)... which I still have!
Just caught you on Lost In The Pond and thought I’d check out your channel. I’m glad you enjoyed Seattle, it is the city I’ve chosen to call home.
That "sauce" you just ate was biscuit and gravy sauce :-) So, you've officially eaten American Biscuits and Gravy.
Enjoy your continued wander around the country!
Thank you Margaret
I have to say again, epic road trip. I usually plan my trips in a circle - start at Glasgow, up to the inner Hebrides, over to Inverness, (maybe up to Thurso),down to Edinburgh, back to Glasgow. But the scale of your trip is truly epic. That’s so much land to cover! Come to Philadelphia and eastern Pennsylvania the next time you visit the US. I can offer you room in an 1890s posh farmhouse, very Americana.
Thank you - it’s truly an epic journey
Sean! The "sauce" is here called "gravy."~~
Seattle is an awesome city! One of my favorites. I live about 2300 miles away from there so I don't get to visit as much as I'd like.
Yeah it’s a cool place
Even most of us Seattlites don't care for Starbucks as our favorite coffee, but we drink it anyway. 😆 Glad you got a nice day, here. The gum wall IS pretty nasty, but it's like a train wreck, you gotta look. I'm sad my beautiful city is not what it used to be, in many respects, but there are still some wonderful elements, Pike Place Market being one. I used to work at the Space Needle, so I'm partial to it's history and that of the Monorail and the Seattle World's Fair. Im excited to see more of you videos and I hope you get to see more of the area. it's beautiful (the weather's been a bit crap, as of late, but summer doesn't officially start until after the 4th of July here, anyway. ok. Except last year. June 26 it was 118°F on my back deck. Too much for this soggy Seattle-born. 😆😉)
Omg yeah that was too much for most of us lol! 🥵
Woodland Park Zoo is fantastic, especially if you want to see grizzly bears. You get to see them super close up, through thick glass, at feeding time.
The Monorail was built for the 1962 World Fair....Still running! Next time in town check out the troll under the bridge in Fremont ...just north of Seattle.
Seattle was the greatest in the eighties. The music scene, funky neighborhoods, old timers, artists, hangers on, just crazy but great. Before the tech explosion and insane real estate prices, insane rents which fed in to the current housing and homeless crisis. Before fucking Starbucks. Before gentrification. It was gritty, rainy, funky and somehow warm and homey. People were more friendly, more easy going, more open. It was a brilliant time to live there.
Seattle is an amazing place to visit and explore! You could easily be a tourist in the greater Seattle area for a month if you know all the cool spots, nevermind all the festivals and events that pop up all year long. I lived there for several years and felt like I got to "be a tourist" a hundred times, and I still missed some things!
Sausage with gravy and biscuits are SO good. I grew up eating/making it back home in Ohio. Glad you guys enjoyed it. I really need to visit Seattle.
Lol. Loved your comment on coffee! I don’t like ⭐️ 🦌 either!
Hey Shaun! Glad you got to visit Seattle. It truly is a beautiful city is that grew up around there. There’s so many things to see in Seattle and around Seattle. There’s actually an underground Seattle where the new Seattle was built on top of the old one. At least part of it. Back in the 1800s Seattle burn down to the ground and they actually have tours down there. Maybe sometime in the future you can go back and see Mount Saint Helens. That’s the mountain that blew up in the 80s.
the gum wall has been removed a few times but it just comes back
Never removed... just _refreshed_ 😆
I have enjoyed every step of your American trip so far, Shaun! Thanks for sharing it with us!
Thank you Maryanne I’m very glad to hear that
One of my childhood friends is the owner/choreographer for The Can Can Caberet in Pike Place Market. You should check it out next time!
Glad you had a chance to visit the Emerald City.
Love it! I have lived in the PNW all my life, but have only been to Seattle one time. It was a fun experience, just have never made it back there again. Thanks for taking us along your journey!
I'm so happy for you two!
So glad you've come back to visit and see.more!
I don't think YT listed all of your videos... my fault for not checking your channel. I have some catching up to do!!
Funny you should mention The Simpsons monorail episode. Seattle had a "Life Imitates Art" moment with that. There was a plan to expand the monorail from just it's one little route that is left over from the World's Fair. This was post-Simpsons monorail episode. Won't go in to the whole story, but lets just say that it didn't happen, the city lost money, and local newspapers almost got in to trouble with (I think it was copyright infringement?) for making so many references to that episode.
The Simpsons was spot on. I reckon there was a company flogging monorails to gullible city councils all over the world. Sydney got one, in 1988, everyone hated it and it closed in 2013.
So happy you got the chance to visit the west coast!
I love your videos, and Scotland
Thank you Shaun
The best part of Pike Place is the warren of unique shops downstairs, and I distinctly remember Starbucks in a different and much more interesting (but small) spot before, up the hill a bit
egg aside, you just enjoyed biscuits and gravy! Hopefully, now you can say "I get it now!" I've never been there, but it looked really good. So glad to see you back in the states, too! Enjoy your trip!
Awww, I'm sorry! I didn't think to mention that some of the most interesting shops in the Market are downstairs. And there's a little restaurant down there with great views out over the water. I'm a BAD subscriber! Seattle has a funky side that I adore. And did no-one throw fish to the purchasers at the fish market? The shame! I hope you enjoyed it, anyway. Ivar's Acres of Clams restaurant is on the waterfront as well as the Aquarium and Ye Old Curiosity Shop .The Freeway Park is kinda cool, too. Wish I coulda flown up to drag ya'll around. Next time!
Next time visit Colorado! You will fall in love with my home state. 😇😀😈 We have a Highlander event in Estes Park every year, and all the local clans gather with their tartans.
That gum wall is grouse....I just love your videos you guys should move to the US....nice to see Teka, you both look great.....thanks for sharing because there's many of us nstill not travelling and can enjoy through you....brings some cheer to life........
Thank you - wish I could buy getting a visa is hard
I loved my time in Seattle, it was just a great place to wander round
I agree a great place to walk. When wee you there?
@@shaunvlog I've just been thinking, it must be about 7 years since I was there, I can't believe it's been so long. Feels like just last year
Get out of Seattle and explore Rainier and the Olympics
My great uncle invested in Starbucks before they became world famous, he now owns half an island off the coast of Seattle.
Sauce = Sausage Gravy ... seriously YUM factor!!!
That was sausage gravy under your egg. Recipe is on you tube.
Fantastic video, just found your page. I've lived in the Seattle area for 13 years now, and it's one of the best places in the county. If you're ever back this way, there's also a lot to see outside the city. I'm live in a small mountain town called Snoqualmie. We have a beautiful waterfall here, and right under brilliant Mount Si. Definitely worth a visit
It’s been a really rainy cold spring here so I’m glad you had a nice sunny day! Glad you had a good time! 😊
Also I’ve left a lot of gum on that gum wall over the years. Lol 😈
True about the coffee. If you get to Miami you might try some Cuban caffe. Good stuff!!!
Peet's (Coffee), started in Berkeley, CA, blows out Starbucks. In San Francisco, you can try Blue Bottle and Philz Coffee, too.
We have Peet's here in Seattle too! It's a terrific place to go coffee-touristing. Try out Peet's, Seattle's Best(SBC), Starbuck's, Tully's, and a whole lot of delicious single-shop coffee shops that are to die for. Then in the evening, you can switch up to visiting microbreweries! :D
@@Kaotiqua Tully's still exists?
@@yordanpopov Huhn! Y'know, apparently they don't! With the pandemic an' all, I completely failed to notice their disappearance. Shame, that. They made an absolutely wicked espresso milkshake!
Wow Shaun I've never been to Seattle, but again, because of your videos I really want to make the trip with Ed now. My brother and some of his family live on the other side of the state in Spokane, but that pales in comparison. I
I’m going to Seattle for the first time in August! So excited, doing a few days in the city then exploring Olympic National park for the rest of the week. Last west coast state to check off my list :) Glad you got to finally make it to the west coast and get some road tripping in…it’s the best way to explore the US!
Be careful, a ton of crime. Cars are being broke into and even stollen. Don’t leave anything of value in your car, and don’t think putting clothes over anything you don’t want stollen. I got this advice from the police before I went there to work for 13 weeks. If you see the parks there will be a ton of homeless people.
Have you been to any of the wilderness in the PNW? I’m assuming you’ve been into the Oregon wilderness? To me, it’s unlike anywhere else. Easy to get lost if you don’t get your bearings. Even if you are experienced, bad things can happen. Stay away from the mountain goats. Check over all the park rules ahead of time & preferably don’t go alone! Have a great time! We are going into Rainier in august.
P.S. the last few years we have had bad air/smoke in August from wildfires. Hopefully, not this year. Fingers crossed.
Ah that’s great - hope you enjoy it too!
@@aliciamarie9704 fYi, they removed the mountain goats out of the Olympic National Park where they weren't native. They now only reside only in the Cascades.
Don't trip over the homeless people.
What, no fish tossing at the Market?
I didn’t see it :(
@@shaunvlog That just means you have to come back!
Also, as some commenters mentioned below, visit the Highlander festival in Estes Park, CO. Or just go to Estes Park. This time, you will really need to avoid the Moose and Bears. Unlike your visit to NC.
Haven't seen it since the last time I was there about 6 years ago. Lived in Tacoma.
Saw you with Lawrence on Lost in the Pond. Welcome! Enjoy your stay.
Thank you very much and great to have you here
Seattle is really cool. Love this video.
If you are still in Seattle/Washington state I recommend hiking in Mt rainier national park.
Thanks enjoyed
I've lived here since 1981, too bad you didn't visit about 20 years ago when it was still a great city. Now I even avoid going downtown.
20 years ago it was a run-down mess - nostalgia is always seen through rose-colored glasses
I used to save up money & Ride The Bus to Pike Place Market to get Baseball ⚾ Cards from a Small Shop on the bottom floor when i was 12.
Glad you got to experience some of what we have to offer, here in Washington state.
I am also glad Pike place was able to survive the pandemic.
I think that market has lived through a lot and would take much more than a pandemic to keep it down 😀
My city my Hometown welcome I hope you enjoyed all city love your videos they're really awesome
Hey, I’m in Seattle right now.😂
i love the kells
Apparently there’s also a gum wall somewhere in Western Europe too. I don’t remember the city though. So Seattle might not be the first.
Normally this time of year is shorts weather, all sun, and starting to get hot. Not this year apparently, so it's nice that you did get some sun! I spent a year in Scotland decades ago (before deciding to move to Seattle), and love how similar the weather is.
lost in the pond episode sent me here to check you out.
Great to have you here 😀 loads of videos coming from my US road trip
You and Peka are just having too much fun Lol. Enjoy. And that Gum Wall is strange. Some artist got a weird idea. Must be on some wacky weed.
As of watching this, USMNT and Seattle Sounders won their futbol game. 4-0 to Sounders, 1-0 US (scored by Jordan Morris who plays for Seattle)
If you have time and a car, drive to Mt. Rainier National Park, to Ohanapecosh River. The most beautiful crystal clear emerald green river I’ve ever seen.
TONS of independent latte stands all over the NW that makes me wonder how Starbucks survives selling overpriced burnt coffee.
So much available to do around Seattle. 90 minutes from the ocean sports to downhill snow skiing and everything in between.
Loved my whole childhood there & moved back (to Enumclaw) for 25 years before moving to Hawaii. Enjoy!
Cool video! I always learn something interesting from you about other places.
I’m right there with you about Starbucks coffee…
When you get back to the Northeast you should try Sabrett frankfurters. They are also sold at stores in various other places in the US. But good luck finding them in the northeast even though there are a lot of people from the northeast out here.
That was just a normal breakfast, you got biscuits and gravy, with eggs and sausage on top of it. I am not a big biscuits and gravy guy, I usually get scramble eggs, sausage pattie or links, or bacon, hashbrowns, and sometimes they give you a plain biscuit or toast, you put butter and jelly on it.
I like the big breakfast with hotcakes from McDonalds, or the loaded omlete sandwich from Hardee's.
Breakfast looked good! Oh to be nice and cool again! Blazing hot today. Hope your enjoying Chicago! Stay safe out there.
Are you in Texas too? We are BLAZING hot here, 108 today!
Too bad I didn’t know you were here. Could’ve had a pint or two. Hope you’re back soon.
After being to Seattle, you should visit Washington State
Isn’t Seattle in Washington state?
@@shaunvlog yes
@@shaunvlog Bryan is trying to be clever Shaun but he is just throwing shade at Seattle --
Kansas if you can is a place you can see next time. Southern America is very good also.
I'm enjoying your latest round of US videos, Shaun. I'll be in Scotland in August if you wanna hang out, go fly drones, or just show a Yankee around Edinburgh. You're always welcome here in Denver, the Mile High City, mate. 🇺🇲🏴
Oh just a hop skip and a jump and you could have visited my Home town Vancouver Canada 🇨🇦 🙂
Thanks for sharing(greetings from across the border in North Idaho; hope you enjoy the forests & mountains here if the winds ever take you this way); take care
you should take a tour of the underground city''''
Did you go to The Crab Pot? Love that place!
Alright, Shaun, when you get here to Texas it will be hot. A tip, stay inside between noon and 6 p.m. You need to have barbecue brisket and real San Antonio tacos. Looking forward to you and your wife nd team having a good time here. I've been to Seattle. You'll appreciate the wide variety in climates and cultures here in the states.
Pike's Place Market was a lot of fun to visit. Haven't been there since 2005.