Page 25 - AAA Magazine – AAA Ohio Auto Club – May 2019
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FROM THE
GOLDEN GATE
TO
EMERALD CITY
Photo: iStock/ canbalci
Find adventure on the road less traveled
to Seattle from
San Francisco.
By John T. Garcia
There have been a few songs written about San Francisco and once you visit, you can understand why. The City by the Bay (that would be San
Francisco Bay, by the way) offers a diversity of cultures in food and art on display daily. The northern California city also features plenty of famous landmarks such as the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, cable cars and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Then you have Seattle, which has spawned a varied collection of musical artists and is responsible for an entire genre, grunge. Another locale on the water, the Washington city is the birthplace of guitar legend Jimi Hendrix as well as Amazon.com and Starbucks Coffee. It also possesses famous landmarks like Pike Place Market, the Space Needle and Harborview Medical Center, where the exterior shots of longtime drama “Grey’s Anatomy” are shot.
And how would you link these two major metropolises? By driving from one to the other through some of the most scenic highways the states of California, Oregon
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