Seattle and Portland

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8 feet of tailoring in Wallingford!
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Marite and Juan's childhood home in Seattle
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The cemetary down the block -- source of zombies?
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Marite's childhood hiding spot
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kitchen
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The bathroom, with tiles laid by Silvia and Bruce years ago
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The room Marite was BORN in
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David, Marite, and current owner E.T.
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Silvia's basement office -- which still has the rotary phone!
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Childhood friend Rocky
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Juan demonstrates the physics of Rocky
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Marite demonstrates the grass haircuts Rocky used to get
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Seattle's recycling program - so intense that coffee grounds get their own can
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The Troll of Fremont, crushing a VW bug
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A statue of Lenin originally in the USSR, now in Seattle. Pinkos~!
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The antique mall in Fremont
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David and a freaky beatnik
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Public Library
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The hazards of eating next to the street
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Downtown Seattle from the north
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Space Needle. Space Light.
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hula pedestrians, also spotted in Cape Cod!
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Gasworks Park
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A sign of the neighborhood -- a rock and a laminated Billy Collins poem in front of someone's house
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Fresh Restrooms at the Pike Market
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In case you don't know what a monorail is...
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Preparing to rock at the Experience Music Project
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Steve and Nicole
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Outside a Nordic Museum
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You want can has some tea, no?
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David battles a VIKING
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Hank the streetcat and Marite
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Marite fights a beaver in Oregon
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At the Rose Garden in Portland
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Squirrel hunting
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The Kennedy School hotel in Portland -- a converted schoolhouse!
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David and the mayor of Newark, who made David lose a bet