One of the things I wanted to do before I leave the Pacific Northwest was to do some of the touristy things that I have never done. I have live here since I was two years old and even lived in Seattle for almost 10 years, but there are still tons of places I’ve yet to see or things to do.

I’ve done the typical Pike Place Market, Waterfront, Downtown Seattle and Space Needle haunts several times over, but there a couple of places I wanted to check out and they were mostly free. Mostly since the only thing that cost money was the gas I put in my car to get to all the places and food. So a couple of weekends ago, me and my bestie went out to hitting up some off-track tourist spots. First up, Jimi Hendrix’s memorial in Renton.

It is such a nice memorial to the legendary musician! It is also not hard to miss! It felt kind of odd going to see his memorial since there was an actual funeral going on not too far, but we were not the only ones there to check out his memorial.

There were tons of “gift” paying homage to Jimi. Several bottles of beer laid about and all his carved portraits were covered with kisses.

Jimi’s grave and memorial was not the only one we visited, we also trekked thought the Capitol Hill neighborhood to see Bruce Lee’s.

We parked on the opposite side of Volunteer Park and walked all away across to the northern part of the park. When I looked at google maps, I thought it was going to be a nice walk across. Which for the most part it was until we hit the fence requiring us to walk down into the neighborhood to get us to the cemetery entrance.

Bruce Lee’s and his son’s memorial/grave are sort the middle of the hill. Mind you we did walk around since all the post we found only mentioned that it was at the top of the hill and to look for crowds. Yeah, no crowds. We wandered around for a bit before we saw them. But definitely worth coming by and leaving a few mementos for them.

The last place we visited during this short day excursion was to check out Kurt Cobain’s house and the park bench’s that everyone seem to use a memorial to the last musician. The house as it turns out, is right next to the park but we couldn’t quite see if from any standing point of the park. The little park however, was very nice.

It’s definitely tiny with just the park benches there in the middle with a walk path down the middle. But obviously one that several people have come to visit and pay tribute to. We made my bestie’s eldest child super jealous since she couldn’t come.

We did check out a couple of other places but they were ones that I’ve been to before and wanted to see before I left. We climbed the water tower in Volunteer Park to see the view of Seattle, hunted for the Fremont Troll under the Aurora Bridge, and ate Indian food at my favorite Indian place in the U-District. My bucket list is just a little bit small than it was before.