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Saturday 11th September

Lift A Kilt from Pike's BreweryOur final full day in the USA and a day devoted to shopping for relatives, for the most part, plus a few more books shoved in as well, to the extent that I, Steve, am now carrying a ridiculous number of books and am throwing away clothes in order to make room. Yes, socks that are almost worn through, shorts that look a bit ragged, they've all gone, to make way for a splurge of shopping. One item bought was the glass in the photo - a rather nice depiction of a Scotsman courtesy of the Pike Brewery. Once again a huge queue prevented us from getting into the Seattle Art Museum. Instead we spent time in several bookshops - trying to choose just the number of books that could, without finally splitting the seams of our panniers, be got into our baggage. Seattle was under cloud a good deal of the time - which made it look rather more spectacular from the sea as we came in to the dock. The atmosphere of Seattle is very pleasant - so like the UK in weather, not too hot, not too cold, and full of coffee shops. We ended our final day in the USA by visiting the Pyramid brewing company, out in the south of the city centre, right by two huge stadia (one baseball, one for american football) that looked like something out of Star Wars. Pyramid Ales are excellent, but we had a ferry to catch followed by a bike ride in semi-darkness so our sampling was somewhat restricted.

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