somniloquence

Ha ha ha. Only you and I will know this!

My preferred route from West Seattle is California to top of hill, left on Thistle to 35th, follow 35th down to 108th and take that till then going right on Ambaum all the way to whichever destination (like when I went to Normandy Park for my folks, I had to leave Ambaum to get to Sylvester).

Second choice is same till I get to Roxbury, then Roxbury to horrible Myers Way, then get on southbound 509 till whichever exit I need (like for Des Moines, you follow 509 all the way to its end point, then take whatever that road is that runs from around the airport to Des Moines Way).

If I'm somewhere like Southcenter or Tukwila, I suck it up and take 518 to 1st. But sometimes I take Southcenter Pkwy to the back side of the hills there, and head up to Pacific Hwy S, then to what used to be Perimeter Rd, till I get to Sunnydale. Wherever I'm going after that.

I have been known to get on to soutbound I-5, and when Dad was alive, I took that to 206th exit, then Military Rd., then 216th.

Very very occasionally I have taken Highland Park Wy to that weird little freeway that goes to Tukwila, what is it, 599? And then go through one of the Southcenter routes, or 518 to my folks'. But I always always get lost trying to get to 599. So I avoid it at all costs.