Easy Destinations for short trip from SEA

Inspired by the last thread on the first page of this forum. I'm a DL employee from SEA and and can zed if I have to. What are some places that are worth checking out that are easy to get to from here for a day or two? The whole redeye thing just to spend a day somewhere on the east coast then leave at night is putting a wear on my body so I'll probably avoid that. I'm willing to rent a car but good public transport would be nice to save on costs since I'm on an airline employee budget. :p I'm open to just about anything. Big city, small town, you name it. I'm trying to get to all 50 states. On the west coast outside of WA/OR/CA/NV/Denver I haven't seen a whole lot. Most of my travel has been east coast and those states so there's a big gap in the middle of the country. What are some places worth checking out?

Head north! You are in an Alaska hub city so you can get pretty much anywhere we fly so I say head up to Alaska. You won't find a fantastic public transportation system but you will find fantastic scenery. Check out Juneau or Ketchikan to start. Once you get started, you'll be hooked!

You know what's an easy day trip from SEA?.......ICELAND!!! That's right! I did it last winter! It leaves Seatac at like 2:45PM and gets into Iceland at 6:45am, then on the way back you get into Seatac at like 7pm. I did it in 2 days. I wouldn't go during summer as that's busy season, but definitely give it a try this winter. The paper tickets on Icelandair are kind of annoying though.

Time changes are funny - that KEF-SEA flight leaves at 1700, arrives at 1745 same day (both times are local, of course). Personally, I'm just amazed that a narrowbody (even a larger one like a 757) can make it KEF-DEN/SEA nonstop. I guess it's only a few hundred miles more (3,349 vs 3,617) than DEN-HNL, which I can believe a little more easily, but still... strange.

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Originally Posted by SSF

You know what's an easy day trip from SEA?.......ICELAND!!! That's right! I did it last winter! It leaves Seatac at like 2:45PM and gets into Iceland at 6:45am, then on the way back you get into Seatac at like 7pm. I did it in 2 days. I wouldn't go during summer as that's busy season, but definitely give it a try this winter. The paper tickets on Icelandair are kind of annoying though.

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Ha strangely enough that would work. I get off at 3:30 (too bad I didn't take the early shift because then I could've made all of the international flights on Delta...now my only options on DL metal for a weekend getaway int'l are Beijing, Tokyo, and Amsterdam which is full most of the time).

Good call on Alaska too. I just realized the delta anchorage flight stops in 2 weeks. Saw first is wide open going and fairly open back so ill hop on tomorrow go whitewater rafting Saturday then get on the redeye back in time for my shift Sunday.

If I were in the upper left corner of the USA, I think I would explore places like Cor'd Aleine, or Boise, Little Big Horn battlefield in Montana, Vancouver, Portland. Tokyo is only 8 hour flight, Anchorage 4 hours.