Coming to Mountain View and Seattle, US related questions

[eevor]

Hello everyone!

I've just signed the offer for an internship in Google and will be coming to US around January 10th for 3 and a half months.
First I'm going to spend around 10 days in Mountain View, after which I'm heading to Seattle/Kirkland.

Since you are my favorite community  and a lot of you are from the US, I thought I could ask some help here as this is my first time going to the US.

So...I was planning on going Mountain View - Seattle by bus or train, any good sites where I can find something like that?
And some website for plane tickets?

And for people living in those areas, any advice for a visiting tourist?


Thanks!

[ohitsstef]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH
myndzi and larry are from seattle :O
ooooooooooooooooh
congrats on your internship  

[Master]

i live 15 minutes from seattle

[Aaron]

I've just signed the offer for an internship in Google

[vipjun]

I'll be around Mountain View during your stay.

[eevor]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH
myndzi and larry are from seattle :O
ooooooooooooooooh
congrats on your internship

Thanks  I'll bother them a bit then when they'll have time. So larry is both seattle and CA expert.

i live 15 minutes from seattle

Cool  Which city? Any recommendations on what to go see in Seattle as a first-time-tourist?

Are you from there or just coming temporary?

[Kitaru]

So...I was planning on going Mountain View - Seattle by bus or train, any good sites where I can find something like that?

I took Amtrak from San Jose -> Portland and Seattle -> San Jose. If you don't mind being on a train for literally 24 hours, it's an option.

And some website for plane tickets?

http://matrix.itasoftware.com/

And for people living in those areas, any advice for a visiting tourist?

Maybe not if you're looking to sightsee (unless your idea of a destination is an arcade ;p ), but I can try to help if you have any assorted questions.

[tsukihimelove]

go downtown, pike place market, space needle, waterfront, there is like the one mall downtown, a gameworks somewhere next it

you can think about going to visit the islands, mercer island, bainbridge island

come to the university of Washington, I go to school there..

other than those things there isn't that much to do in seattle

[eevor]

And hello everyone from Sunnyvale, CA

[vipjun]

And hello everyone from Sunnyvale, CA

I'm 2miles from sunnyvale, but officially in mt view

[Kitaru]

How long will you be staying, eevor? Did you want to meet up with any players while you were here?

[eevor]

Hey guys. Just arrived to Kirkland, WA. Was in Sunnyvale only during this week, had a lot of stuff in my schedule and I don't drive so was pretty much on google campus the whole time.
I felt like the only pedestrian in California.

Vipjun, sorry, I missed your post  we were quite near probably, I went Sunnyvale-MTV-Sunnyvale every day.

I will be in Kirkland for the following 3 months, working at Kirkland office. If any Seattle-area people want to meet sometimes, let me know

Also, Emerald City Comic Con. Who's going for that? I don't want to go alone

[Kitaru]

Ah bummer, OK. Well, have fun in Washington, hopefully you can meet up with some of the guys there.