in america everything is bigger bolder and more ambitious and in the latest leg of our road trip
i find myself facing one of my biggest fears don't look down all right doing something now
that i don't know if i'm totally comfortable with in fact not even a little bit comfortable with
i do not like heights i'm fine with heights on a plane but in terms of heights look like buildings
i don't like them and here in seattle one of the most popular things tourist attractions is the
needle thing that's what i've been calling it so we've got here it's
called it's called the space needle there it is there look oh my god that's so high
i think with this place as with many high buildings is it looks even higher in the flesh
so it makes you nervous when you get close to it
annoyed i forgot my sunglasses though i thought it was supposed to be it was going to be cloudy
all day today in seattle that was supposed to be the thing it's been freezing every day since
we've arrived here today is the first day where not only is it you know beautiful sunshine but
it's also warm look at that up there it's kind of weird because the first day here in seattle
we were stuck in downtown and that was our only impression of the city now we've kind of been
had the opportunity to get out and about a little bit more and see there's a lot more to this place
somebody's playing the sacks over there in the park outside the space needle and it's i wanna
i like it
the space needle was opened in 1962 at a cost of 4.5 million dollars and built in just 400 days
1962 was the year that seattle was hosting the world's fair and as the
theme for the fair was the 21st century and the space race being firmly underway
and with boeing being an iconic aviation and aerospace manufacturer from the sea
it was decided that an impressive monument was needed to not only celebrate the fair but to add
some wow factor and cement the fierce promise of a new technological age of optimism and progress
we're going to be traveling up at 10 miles an hour for approximately 41 seconds up to the
observation deck where he'll be up at a height of 520 emojis the space needle's total height of 600.
184 meters oh my god the spacing was built back in 1962 to be the centerpiece for the
world's spare that year which was held all below and around us on what's now the seattle center
the theme of the fair was imagining life in the futuristic 21st century and here we are now
oh my ears are popped i actually feel good up here
i didn't feel good on that move it's moving this morning it's moving i mean not like this
it's fine look at the cruise ship wow
i don't know about this
these seats here see that it's made of glass that's glass and you lean backwards um did i best
and i'm really it's giving me very good i can't do that i have to lean right on the edge of it you're
mad i can't go further back than that supposed to lean back against the glass which is like hanging
over i'm not gonna oh no let's speak though it might be thick but yeah i'm not gonna lie
oh there's one no way take a photo stay
safe for all that i'm scared and i am scared do not get me wrong about that
the view up here is spectacular and i think it's not to be messed just based on the view
like it's something you have to do you have to do this when you come here it's spectacular it's
inside there's like restaurants and stuff like a cafe
something happened
look at him
i see all these buildings where it has a glass floor so you can like stand on the glass and look
straight down i can already tell you from this experience i will never ever do that
a few moments later so apparently there's a lower level where
it does have a glass thing that you stand on you close it right down
so on our door here this outer rim where the glasses moves look if i go here
in front of that car i'm not moving backwards
and then oh my god
that was glass it with all the way down
it's fine when you stand on it but don't look down
it's also quite disconcerting
being on a platform that's glass and also moving around in a circle just concerned
the space needle was the tallest building west of the mississippi river when it was opened
standing at 184 metres tall with the observation deck being 160 meters above ground in 1999 it
was designated as a landmark for the city of seattle and as an iconic part of the city skyline
this is supposed to be back to a elevator which has a good view of elliott bay and puget sound
that's all salt water connects out to the pacific ocean about
140 miles to the northwest through the strait of juan de fuca i'm so relieved
that was really really epic i liked that a lot
i'm happy we went up there we almost never and i'm really happy with it
even if you're scared of heights do it
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