this is such a cool tunnel i love how there's trees and grass and homes above it
it's the seattle portal to the pacific here
and just like that we are back in downtown seattle washington going five miles an hour
hey everybody eric here from nomadic fanatic i will be uploading this video with some
nomad internet link below in the video description we are playing in seattle once again
i give you the famous troll of seattle here at the fremont troll under the bridge
quite possibly my biggest troll you can see his gnarly nose up there he just looks like a troll
look at he's got a an a beetle slug bug in his hand there and uh some people climb up to the
top and and get a picture up there let's uh go around this base see if we can walk up this way
oh yeah see now we're here at the back of the troll and you can walk up here if i don't slip
and you can see the view from the troll looking down the bridge there pretty cool there's also
the trolls troll knoll forest here or what some call trolls knoll park here in seattle what a
beautiful day thanks for joining me everyone we're going to be hanging out in seattle today
yeah just made my loop through the park and on the way out the sign says keep on nolan
i actually like this area of seattle the fremont area not to be confused with fremont in vegas
but the fremont area of seattle are really neat bridges through here what should we do next i'm
trying to stay out of the really big area parts of the city but there's also something specific
i want to do in seattle which requires us to cross this little body of water here but and we
gotta find something to eat for lunch yeah there's the uh space needle off in the distance there too
looks like it's got orange on the top that's weird i think the main reason
why i can handle the big cities as well as i do is because i don't spend that much time in them
so i can experience a day like today and then take tomorrow off and do something totally
non big city but uh here at this unsuspecting little corner you see on the ground behind me
this is a arcade plaza and is is completely themed pac-man like an entire pac-man screen
it's art it's art in seattle there's there's a lot of art to choose from but i particularly
like this one yeah it's pretty cool it says ready it's art guys it's art
all right i'm gonna grab some food here at i love teriyaki in seattle take it to the park maybe
all right got my uh teriyaki the nearest park here is called gasworks park in seattle and go check
it out find a place to eat um okay huh definitely the strangest city park i think i've ever been to
i don't get it lots of uh graffiti i mean art art it's seattle art and i'm guessing that all
these big gas tanks have something to do with why it's called gas works park it's i guess okay yeah
we'll check this out in a minute there's some seating down here in the pavilion when i grab
a seat right there you never really know about these places as a traveler like i don't know it
it smells like sex and broken dreams in here not the best place to uh have lunch but i'm not i'm
not moving already parked let's take a peek here and see how much they love teriyaki whoa i'll
tell you what that looks incredible whoa that's way better than i thought it's teriyaki sauce or
it's not teriyaki sauce i don't think is it i think it's for the rice
yeah just don't breathe while you're here eating
all right usually i wouldn't recommend any food that's right next door to a laundromat
and actually as i got into that chicken
it kept getting worse and worse the bottom layers of the chicken
didn't finish at all all right so what is this place so yeah it's like a converted gas plant
here by the water that's now a playground which you know i guess i guess that's a pretty good use
for it right that's by the water still i'm gonna i'm gonna give it a four out of five
quirky stars for being the strangest city park that i've ever seen gas works park
pretty weird right over here we got the water over here i like their idea of saving money
rather than tearing all this down just spray paint it and call it a kid's playground it makes makes
perfect sense yeah look at the seattle skyline there's the space needle right over there yeah
it seems so quiet from way over here on the other side of lake union here
wow i started my day outside it's a beautiful rare sunny day uh in seattle and washington but
uh i did make plans today to go to an indoor thing so um gonna go back in the car and go enjoy some
air conditioning for the second half of my day and take take you with me of course all right starting
to see some airplane wings here the home of boeing look at this the museum of flight they got a blue
angels up there oh all right so pretty much no matter where you're from you've heard of boeing
washington state is not the only place that they now manufacture boeing airplanes for
airports i think they still do something here in washington state but anyway never been to
the museum of flight here in seattle and there's something special and unique going on right now
all right we're getting up to the front of the museum here yeah there's a special exhibit for
a limited time here about walt disney and the world war ii connection a whole exhibit on it
now i know back in the day walt disney uh helped the united states with some war propaganda to
kind of make people more pro war for world war ii or two and i also know that he used some of
his studios in anaheim to actually help use that as a training facility and um that's pretty much
all i know there's literally a plane taking off here at the airport right now right there
so let's go check it out together and i'll show you some highlights it's uh 20 bucks to get in
but you all get to get in free because you are 234 000 of my favorite friends coming along with me
i love it as soon as you walk in here it is this is the new temporary exhibit walt disney studios
and world war ii with the donald duck there all right i got a program they close in three hours
i'm sure that's plenty of time but i still want to go hit this up first okay it says july 9th
to february 5th of 2023 they're doing it here in seattle so let's start with the walt disney
studios world war ii exhibit how easy is this you just follow the donald duck steps that's great
and this is a rotating room as i understand it so different times they'll have different
stuff going on but yeah okay so this was the uh woodworking barn he's working on a lathe there
of course if you're building airplanes made of wood you're gonna have to have your own facility
this is pretty neat we've got some glare coming in from the window on the other side
here but right in front of us here is a wooden two-seater 1918 boeing model c airplane crazy
and it really does smell like a wood shop in here also as you're reading and looking
at everything they've got speakers on the roof that are plain like wood carving sounds
let's go check it out hey it's walt disney and like many other industries back in that time
with so many of the men going to war this one's talking about girls at work for disney of course
they came in and started the imagineering process and uh artistic stuff so they they added a special
element to uh the walt disney corporation in studios of course one of the concerns for
the disney artists was that um they were gonna go to war and then there wouldn't be anyone to
make the movies and stuff so there's a soldier doing some sketches up there it does say that
a number of them received deferments to remain on war-related film projects actually of course
we know walt disney also did a lot of wildlife captures too you just gotta change and and work
with what you got with what's going on yep disney artists uh joining on the fight uh here's a sketch
and an advertisement old battered butch b25 is still very much alive he's tattered and torn
though a bit battle worn you'll find him in any old dive look at seeing his eyes smoking a cigar
a little little different piece of disney that we don't remember but that i don't remember at least
and it says the studio is topsy turvy with war work training films did you know that they made
war training films in that time wow disney comics the gremlin from uh 19 let's say 1943.
funny characters here's some of their uh shorts
oh three cavallaros i want to see that one will it change to it or is that what we're watching
maybe maybe that's what we're watching what else we got the grain that built a hemisphere
huh and winged scourge you guys remember any of these it has that old looney tunes feel to me
some disney patch ideas uh but here's some actual patches there's some glare shooting down boy these
are great oh boy there's mickey there that's an old patch man there's goofy and donald duck
more this way oh boy i've seen some of these films with the old time you know war type stuff
and guns and naval stuff like that and i never i never realized the actual connection with walt
disney studios and world war ii that that's why so many of those exist today that you'll find
like like reruns or even on disney plus there's a whole section see i'm gonna have to look some
of these up commando duck from a 1944 pretty sure it's on disney plus be interesting to
see them now and see how well they've aged there's pinocchio all together for war savings
pretty cool let's go check out some other airplanes yeah we're going to go over
the uh memorial bridge here and go see some airplanes on the other side of the museum here
man i didn't know we were going to go back over the highway to the other side
complexes because that that's a big building i'm going to see these big ones first though
oh now we gotta go back downstairs and let's take the elvis later down
going down going down awesome awesome it's nice that they left this little window here so you can
see everything as we go down
i probably could have made it down the stairs one two flights of stairs but
yeah this place is massive so we're parked way over there there's that building that we started
at then the boeing airplane red company then this one is the other world war thing that we
just skipped to come across this walking trail down this elevator and then we've got this
the museum of flight charles simone space gallery oh space shuttle
wow this place is just like any of the nasa places that i've been to before now they've got a piece
here on public and uh private partnerships so of course they're talking about spacex because
that's the main thing going out of cape canaveral right now in florida is the starlink and i was
just told that this is a full-size replica of a space shuttle from nasa inside the building so
pretty cool on the other side of the shuttle here there's something you can do over here
i see some stairs to the payload payload bay area okay wow we are inside the shuttle guys
it's something that you don't get to do at any of the other nasa places
we're inside with the doors open it's the old moon roof or the shuttle it's pretty cool and then i
believe the uh cockpit is up there and you gotta go through all these little tunnels back in there
all right mr astronaut thanks for your help head back over to the main entrance gotta get
a magnet from here and of course they exit us through the uh gift store i know i missed the
big b-52s over there i'm gonna i'm gonna skip those today and go try to find some magnets
nice they actually have uh quite a few to choose from there's the blue angel out front that we saw
there's a push to eject pin um let me look through these and then i'll get back to you here
yeah lots to choose from guys the my favorite here is uh this first man on the moon stamp
that's been laminated that says united states with a magnet for four bucks that's my favorite and
it's a you know really small form factor magnet really cool really cool i love it so yeah i highly
recommend that one even if you don't make it for the walt disney world war ii exhibit just the nasa
stuff is is really neat and unique and definitely different than anything i saw in houston
or in cape canaveral florida so awesome let's get back to camp and check in on those kitties
there's my kitties i told you get some outdoor time opie and tara
got the little outdoor tent out here i'm keeping an eye on him but got a couple toys in there and
i usually put a little fleece blanket in there my tater tot one that shawn and jill
got me tara likes to lay on it she doesn't like the rocks she's particular about certain things
but yeah that's an easy way to give them some outdoor time without leashes tangling or anything
like that and that way i can go inside too and you know go to the bathroom and come back out and know
they're going to be safe and bring them inside every single time i go in but there's plenty
of squirrels they both uh stare at the squirrels but i've never seen either of my kitties chatter
at them like jacks used to do they don't talk to the squirrels but they love watching the squirrels
anyways guys i want to get this video uploaded for tomorrow i'm going to hang out with the kitties
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