Light pollution=bad

I wish there was a place out here where you could sit in the dark and think. Someplace like Makapu'u Point, where it's quiet, and the stars hang over a restless sea; where moonlight catches on the foamy crests of waves as they roll in to lap and crash on the rocks below your feet, mimicking the crunching of thoughts in your own brain as you tumble through the things that catch on your neurons.

There exists no such place in the Seattle area that I know of.

The ocean isn't nearby. The Puget Sound lays there, sure, as do lakes large and small, but that's not the same, is it? And even if the sea were to rush in and lay claim to Western Washington right up to Seattle's doorstep, there would still be no peace. Why?

It's just too big and busy and luminous of a city to ever afford that kind of escape. You can drive out for miles and miles and still see the big pink and orange glow of the lights, rising above the landscape and obliterating the stars.

Last June, there was crazy sun activity that caused the Northern Lights to be seen as far south as Tennessee and Texas. We drove out in the dark of night, looking for a place where we could perhaps spot them too, heading up Highway 18, since it seemed the "darkest" of the major roads in the area.

But the clouds never broke and we never got our view.

I bring this up, because although we drove quite far from the city, its glow was persistent, even over the mountains, reaching up and waving hello, like some sinister radioactive halo. And on the other side of the mountain was the glow of another city, Issaquah, a.k.a. The Quah.

Sure, I could drive up and over the mountain passes to Eastern Washington , where surely the landscape spreads out far enough that people start to spread out more, and their lights don't congregate at a high enough concentration to reach pollutive critical mass, but that's a little far, isn't it?

And there are no moonlit seas in Eastern Washington. That much is patently obvious.

What is there to do about this seemingly unsolvable problem?