SR-520, Seattle to Redmond

This is the longest floating bridge in the world — a floating span over seven thousand seven hundred feet long, opened in twenty sixteen.

Medina's city hall started out as its car-ferry terminal — boats from Seattle served Medina from the eighteen-nineties until the ferries quit.

Whaling ships used to winter in that little bay — over twenty years of them, resting in freshwater to kill the barnacles.

SR 520 east of Lake Washington, from the Hunts Point lid around Clyde Hill to I-405 in Bellevue.

Redmond's downtown merchants started a bicycle race around the lake in nineteen thirty-nine, to raise money for sidewalk flags — that's how Derby Days began.

This lake's named for Danish settlers who bought land here in eighteen eighty-nine — but the blueberries didn't come till nineteen forty-four, and the farm's still going.

Microsoft moved onto this campus on February twenty-sixth, nineteen eighty-six — six buildings, room for about eight hundred people — and went public about two weeks later.

Redmond's downtown merchants started a bicycle race around the lake in nineteen thirty-nine, to raise money for sidewalk flags — that's how Derby Days began.

This lake's named for Danish settlers who bought land here in eighteen eighty-nine — but the blueberries didn't come till nineteen forty-four, and the farm's still going.

Microsoft moved onto this campus on February twenty-sixth, nineteen eighty-six — six buildings, room for about eight hundred people — and went public about two weeks later.

Medina's city hall started out as its car-ferry terminal — boats from Seattle served Medina from the eighteen-nineties until the ferries quit.

Whaling ships used to winter in that little bay — over twenty years of them, resting in freshwater to kill the barnacles.

SR 520 east of Lake Washington, from the Hunts Point lid around Clyde Hill to I-405 in Bellevue.

This is the longest floating bridge in the world — a floating span over seven thousand seven hundred feet long, opened in twenty sixteen.