Redmond, First Impressions

You can really tell that logging, it used to be BIG here.

The place feels like Camp. Giant evergreens all over the place. I'm talking about Lush here. I found the architecture in California to be very Latin inspired. They like them some ceramic roof tiles down there. Up here the houses have a more... log cabin feel. Except these log cabins are fully furnished and decked out to the nines... and have fiber to the home.

The air is crisp. I found Silicon Valley to have a sort of hot mugginess to the air. The air here smells of life, and salt.

Also, they do not appear to know what HP Sauce is.

I took a drive around Microsoft's (enormous) campus. It's not so much a campus as it is "The area south of Redmond". Microsoft, is BIG here. Unlike the Campuses of places like Electronic Arts, Apple, Google... The place doesn't look like one giant mound of amenities to delight the eye. It looks like a business park in the middle of the woods, if you can imagine that. Despite the fact that you see Microsoft everywhere around here, the Campus almost seems tucked away.

I'm sure I'll have a lot more to say tomorrow.