{"id":148,"date":"2018-06-04T23:11:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T23:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelfrances.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2021-03-15T03:02:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T03:02:32","slug":"seattle-wa-getting-ready-getting-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelfrances.com\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"Seattle, WA: Getting Ready &#038; Getting There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Books<\/span>\u00a0\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mercer-Girls-Libbie-Hawker\/dp\/1503951979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mercer Girls\u00a0<\/a><\/b>by Libbie Hawker, is a fictional story of a true account reflecting Asa Mercer&#8217;s delivery of mail-order brides to the men of the Seattle logging industry in the last 1800s. The late 1960s TV series, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Here_Come_the_Brides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here Come the Brides<\/a>, was based on this account.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>Getting There <\/b><\/span>\u2013 Drive if you must, or FLY.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Drive<\/strong>: It&#8217;s a long haul from just about anywhere other than Portland.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fly<\/strong>: My favorite airlines to Seattle are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwest.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Southwest<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaskaair.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alaska<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books\u00a0\u2013 Mercer Girls\u00a0by Libbie Hawker, is a fictional story of a true account reflecting Asa Mercer&#8217;s delivery of mail-order brides to the men of the Seattle logging industry in the last 1800s. The late 1960s TV series, Here Come the Brides, was based on this account. Getting There \u2013 Drive if you must, or FLY. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/travelfrances.com\/?p=148\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seattle, WA: Getting Ready &#038; Getting There&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,31,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-getting-ready","category-getting-there","category-seattle","category-washington"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Seattle, WA: Getting Ready &amp; Getting There - Travel Frances<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/travelfrances.com\/?p=148\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seattle, WA: Getting Ready &amp; Getting There - Travel Frances\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Books\u00a0\u2013 Mercer Girls\u00a0by Libbie Hawker, is a fictional story of a true account reflecting Asa Mercer&#8217;s delivery of mail-order brides to the men of the Seattle logging industry in the last 1800s. 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