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Just another normal travel day… the luggage with sunglasses, the flamingo works security, and apparently stress is NOT allowed past the gate. 😂✈️🌴
No more someday.

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🌎 Beyond the Postcard: Seattle Underground

Most people explore Seattle above ground — Pike Place Market, the waterfront, the Space Needle...

But some of Seattle’s most fascinating history is actually under your feet.

In 1889, the Great Seattle Fire destroyed much of the city’s business district. When Seattle rebuilt, city leaders made an unusual decision: they raised the street level in parts of downtown.

New sidewalks and streets were eventually constructed above portions of the old city.

The result?

Old storefronts, sidewalks, entrances and passageways were left behind beneath the new streets.

Today, you can actually descend below modern Seattle and walk through parts of this forgotten world — remnants of the city that existed more than a century ago.

And there are some wonderfully strange details.

Those unusual purple glass squares you sometimes see embedded in sidewalks around Pioneer Square? They weren't simply decoration. They were designed as skylights, allowing daylight to reach the underground spaces below.

Suddenly, something you could walk over without noticing becomes part of the story.

That's what I love about places like this.

We tend to think of cities as what we see today. But underneath them are previous versions — old streets, old buildings, old decisions and thousands of stories.

📍 Seattle Underground | Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington

Would you rather explore Seattle from the top of the Space Needle... or underneath its streets?

I'm choosing both. 😄

This is Beyond the Postcard — because sometimes you have to go beneath the surface to discover the best part of the story.

No more someday.
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I have a condition - I constantly feel like I need to go somewhere)))

🥚 Beyond the Postcard: Owakudani Black Eggs

Would you eat a black egg if someone told you it could add seven years to your life?

Well… I did. 😂

High in the mountains of Hakone is Owakudani, an active volcanic valley created thousands of years ago by an eruption of Mount Hakone. Steam rises from the mountainside, sulfur fills the air, and on a clear day you can get spectacular views of Mount Fuji.

But Owakudani is also famous for something considerably stranger:

Black eggs.

The eggs — called kuro-tamago — are cooked in the area's naturally hot, sulfurous spring water. The minerals react with the eggshells and turn them jet black, while the inside remains essentially a normal hard-boiled egg.

According to local legend, eating one black egg adds seven years to your life. 🥚

Naturally, I had to try one.
And here is where Sailfish Travel provides the kind of critical travel reporting nobody asked for:

I did NOT like it. 😂

Maybe it was the sulfur. Maybe it was the setting. Maybe longevity simply requires sacrifices I'm not prepared to make.

But would I try it again?

Absolutely.

Because sometimes travel isn't about loving everything you taste or experience. Sometimes it's about doing something completely peculiar because you are there, laughing about it afterward, and having a story you'll remember years later.

📍 Owakudani | Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan

So I need to know:

Would you eat one for the extra seven years?
And more importantly… would you eat TWO for fourteen? 😂

This is Beyond the Postcard — because the best travel stories aren't always about the things we loved.

Sometimes they're about the black egg we definitely didn't. 🥚😄

No more someday.
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Flowers are sweet… but have you ever received a flight confirmation? 😂✈️🧳
Now THAT is romance.
No more someday. 💙

A little happiness reminder)))) 🧡

🚂 Beyond the Postcard: White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad 🇺🇸🇨🇦

Some railroads were built to connect cities.

This one was built because thousands of people were chasing gold.

In 1896, gold was discovered in Canada’s Klondike. Soon, prospectors were pouring into the region, many arriving in Skagway, Alaska, before attempting the brutal journey north toward the goldfields.

There was just one problem.

Between Skagway and the interior stood the Coast Mountains.

So engineers did something rather extraordinary.

Beginning in 1898, they constructed the narrow-gauge White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad, climbing from sea level through steep mountain terrain toward the Yukon. The project required sharp curves, tunnels, bridges and grades that made it an engineering achievement of its time.

And here's the irony I love:

The railroad was built for the Klondike Gold Rush…

…but by the time it was completed in 1900, the rush was already fading.

Yet the railroad survived.

For decades it carried freight, ore and passengers. And eventually it discovered another kind of gold: travelers. 🚂

Today, instead of prospectors carrying picks and supplies, its vintage-style passenger cars carry visitors through some spectacular scenery — mountains, waterfalls, gorges and remnants of Gold Rush history.

And if you're arriving in Skagway on an Alaska cruise, this is one of those excursions where the journey itself really is the destination.

📍 White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad | Skagway, Alaska & Yukon

Would you rather experience this landscape from the train 🚂 or hike the old Gold Rush trail 🥾?

I took the train, with a window seat. 😄

This is Beyond the Postcard — because sometimes a railroad built to chase one kind of fortune finds another life entirely.

No more someday.
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At sea or on land? 🌊🌴 Either can be unforgettable — the secret is choosing what fits your group. Let’s find your perfect match. ✈️⚓

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