Seattle With Chieko, December 7-12, 1998
  
 
 
Chieko flew to Seattle from San Jose and I flew in from Charlotte. This was the first time in Seattle for both of us...
 
BellevueClub.jpg (42153 bytes) The Bellevue Club...
 
 
Ridgewood-G.jpg (88521 bytes) Ridgewood-G, in Bellevue, where my Microsoft Product Support Services counterparts worked...
 
 
Dixie's BBQ, in Bellevue. Microsoft teachers based in Charlotte - especially Mike Dan - would rave about this place when they returned from teaching trips. So, it was our second stop. We met the man!
 
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Next we visited the Uwajimaya Japanese Grocery in Bellevue, then the Microsoft Main Campus in Redmond.
 
 
Chieko_friend_house.jpg (71783 bytes) At Lake Sammamish in Redmond, near the Microsoft main campus. Chieko was checking on this property for a friend back in California.
 
 
Jimi_Hendrix_Steve3.jpg (60852 bytes) Jimi2.jpg (67029 bytes) Jimi Pick2.jpg (52220 bytes) The Jimi Hendrix gravesite, in Renton, WA...
 
 
Downtown Seattle...
 
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Roslyn, WA, a hundred miles east of Seattle, deep in the Cascade Mountains...
 
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Back in downtown Seattle...
 
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InnTop_Chieko_Steve.jpg (33826 bytes) Steve and Chieko...
 
 
Chieko_airport_leave.jpg (33030 bytes) Chieko flew back to San Jose, and I to Charlotte...
 
 
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