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On my way to Japan I had to transit through Seattle’s SEATAC Airport. SEACTAC stands for Seattle/Tacoma as the airport is located between these two cities. I’d never been to Seattle but since I was only planning to change planes I didn’t have much time to explore the city. Well, that’s not totally true because I missed my connecting flight to Japan, due to some mechanical problem with the plane I took from Canada. I ended up spending an extra 24 hours in Seattle but the airline gave me a hotel and meal vouchers. Trying to make the best of an unfortunate situation, I tried taking a bus downtown. Sadly, it was not my day as I had the right numbered bus, but took it in the wrong direction. Oh Lordy! Anyway enough about that mis-adventure.

Seattle’s Airport is pretty nice. The food court area was the best part of the place as it had a great view of the runway. Made up of huge panels of glass it’s an impressive structure.

One thing I noticed when I flew in was that the airport seemed to take forever to fly over. Not only that but the airport sure seemed to have a lot of gaps(making no sense) cause I would see regular street traffic and neighborhoods, and then more runways and planes??? I couldn’t figure it out but then realized that we must have been flying over Boeing’s facilities. (In case you don’t know Boeing is one of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers, if not the biggest.)

Another cool thing that the airport had were a couple of full scale models of historical planes. One of them was of the Voyager plane. The Voyager was the first plane to fly around the world without refueling. I don’t remember what the second plane was famous for though. Sorry.