BG experiences in the Pacific Northwest

[Lord_Byron]

We got back from our 2010 vacation in Seattle on Sunday. While there, we had a couple of BG experiences.

We went white water rafting on the Elwah river in Olympic National Park. It was gorgeous and glacier-fed numbingly cold. Anyway, as I walked in to register sporting my BGSU t-shirt, I noticed a truck in the parking lot with Falcon license plate frames. This place was in the middle of nowhere on the Olympic Peninsula down a little dirt road. Went in and had a nice conversation with a woman who was secretary to the Board of Trustees and recently retired. They sold everything, traveled the country by motorhome and ended up settling near there.

But, even more strange was our visit to the notorious "Gum Wall" in the Pike Place Market. This is a wall in a little alley that people have stuck gum on for years. I guess it started with people waiting in line for a theater down there, and took off as a tourist attraction. Anyway, here's a close-up picture of the princess next to the wall. The wall is probably about 40 feet long.






Anyway, I look down the wall and see this:





Someone had put a blue "DUKE" up high on the wall, so I figured this had to be a BG person.

Well, it was a great 10-day trip, except for the red-eye home on Saturday night. Here's Lady Byron waiting for our connection at O'Hare,




Good to be back and catching up on the boards.

[Falconfreak90]

LB,

Sounds like you had a great time...that gum wall is kinda sick yet cool at the same time.

Thanks for sharing!

GO FALCONS

[McConvey]

That's pretty cool.

My two strangest BG experiences were as follows...

In December 2004 I took a 10-day holiday in London right before Christmas. While over there, I decided to watch a hockey game in which a BG alumnus was playing. So I wore my BG jersey. Much to my surprise, a TON of the English hockey fans had heard of BG and asked me about the jersey. They even knew it was in Ohio.

Last year when I was in Australia I was eating breakfast at the hotel (was included with the room) and there was a guy down there that asked me about my BGSU hockey shirt. Turns out he'd graduated from BG a few years before me and was surprised to find another alumnus in a hotel at Coogee Beach.

Can't say as I've had people recognize my gear when I was in the Pacific Northwest though.

[Tech83]

Sounds like a good vacation....

.... the gum wall was mentioned on NPR this morning. A woman has written a book about the 101 places you don't need to see.

[JoeFalcon]

.... the gum wall was mentioned on NPR this morning. A woman has written a book about the 101 places you don't need to see.

Is no. 1-25 downtown Toledo?


(Nice BG encounter stories, BTW)