Posted on 07/29/2007 8:19:23 PM PDT by ozaukeemom
Actually, the Central District is in the process of becoming an extension of Capitol Hill. Now you need to go down to Rainier Avenue if you want to score some rock... ;-)
Wear plaid and old fashioned hiking boots with red laces.
It is a building I think near Wall also. I figured it would be busy place on the weekend. And, there is a festival going on.
Now, I am glad I did not get a place on the Hill!
I love to walk and explore, but would prefer to not get mugged. lol
Pike Place Market is really neat. You could easily spend a day there..
They also have the city park with the IMAX theatre and the monorail..
‘course, the Columbia club is nice, where you can drink hefeweisser on tap while looking down on the space needle..
This is great! I will check places out. I will see where the Icon Grill is. If it is close, I may go there tomorrow night!
Over 130 aircraft and countless exhibits including much aircraft history all the way from the Wright Bros through recent wars. Lots of space stuff also. Moving displays of operating aircraft engines. Also so covers growth of passanger travel from the early days. Fascinating - free tours make it even more interesting. Plan on at least half a day!!
...after living in Seattle for five years and working at Boeing I would recommend the Boeing Everett tour. It will let you see how the 747 and other jets are built. Stay away from downtown Seattle and especially a place called Fremont where a 30 foot high statue of Lenin has been erected.
Most places outside of Seattle are normal. The eastside (Bellevue,Kirkland area are fine.) If you are into classic American cars you can check out the LeMay car collection on August 25th (Saturday) the grounds are open only one day a year. I am flying up to Seattle to visit relatives in a few weeks and the second day I’m there. It’s unbelievable how many cars he collected from all era’s. Anyway have fun and don’t let the leftist whackjobs bother you!
C(r)apitol Hill seemed to be the home of every runaway north of San Fran and west of Duluth. I would see these kids begging for change on a regular basis. Occassionally, they would do more than that (though not to me, and I was packing a .40 anyway) to folks in the sidestreets/alleys off of Broadway.
In terms of the scare factor, I would say that Seattle doesn't have the "feral youth" gang problem that NY's outer boroughs or Chicago has, but there is a very large mentally disturbed/drug addict population, and this is seen everywhere in the city, but especially below Queen Anne Hill down to the port.
Heh... I was thinking “anywhere but the Peoples Republik of Seattle”.....
Also the boat locks from Lake Union to Puget Sound...lots of boat traffic, both pleasure and fish and working commercial, through the locks.
Best way if you have time is to take a lake and harbor cruise that goes through the locks. Not all cruises go through the locks. A harbor cruise around either Seattle’s waterfront or around lakes Union and Washington can be very good way to see lots of Seattle.
Take the “duck tour” and ask for the tour guide who calls himself “Obie Haive.” Hopefully he’s still working on the duck tour. He’s absolutely hilarious, and the tour itself is interesting and fun!
Ditto the Pike Place market
If you have more than a day, drive over to Kirkland and take the Argosy Boat rifde around Lake Washington and you will see Bill Gates's house and a lot of other Billionaires and MANY, MANY MUlti millionaires homes.
Eat sidewalk-side on 1st Ave.....any place....Cascadia has great munchies for happy hour....Queen City Grill has a fabulous early bird halibut specail for $20.00..and 20 bottles of wine available for $20,,00 each. GREAT VALUE!!
If you are here this Thursday, all the museums are free after 5:00 even the new SAM and the Paul Allen EMP. The busses are free in the city...Pioneer Sq. to Belltown....it only costs you your DIGNITY..:) HAVE FUN!! Just WALK AROUND...and after Tuesday go to Cheap Tickets at the Market or Pacific Place for discount tickets.
Hope this helps!
what is VRBO?
Pike Place Market- Interesting experience, fun fish and curio shopes, but filthy with hippies and New Age burnouts. That gray dust you see around the hippes when they shake their heads? Brain cells. Exhale as you walk by.
Safeco Field- Beautiful ballpark, fun to explore; every seat is a good one. Catch a Mariners game if you can. They're doing okay this season. And while you're there, try the garlic fries and shish-ke-berries. Delicious.
Kidd Valley Burgers- simply divine. A vice, I confess.
Museum of flight- cool planes, cool exhibits.
Capitol Hill- "They say the girls are something else on Broadway..." They're something else, alright- they're men.
Ferry Ride- Fun experience.
Island hopping in the San Juans- worth the trip. Some pretty country. Or if you are more adventurous:
Seaplane ride over the San Juans- Kenmore Air has a great deal.
The Space Needle and Seattle Center- It's nice to see, once. It's also ludicrously expensive to go up there, and the dinner menu sucks. Also, while in Seattle Center, be prepared for the ever-present hippies banging away at their bongos. Ask them, "If I give you twenty dollars will you stop pretending that you have any talent and go away?" I did. The guy actually shut up for ten full seconds. It was bliss, I tell you, and worth every penny.
Stay away from Pioneer Square! Bums are a protected species around these parts, and aggressive panhandling is the rule, not the exception. Then you get the drunken brawls and occasional gunfights from juiced-up gangstas. It's not a healthy place to be at any time. Just stay out.
There ya go. No charge for that.
Gunner
skip Ivars and go to the Ballard locks.....its free except for the parking and they have lovely flowers to boot, as well as sometimes you can see the sea otters...then, just go over to the Lock Spot for lunch and Thomas Kemper on draft....
Go to downtown Tacoma. History musuem, the Chihuly museum of glass, Harmon’s brewpub. Walk the waterfront (north Tacoma) and Pt. Defiance Park/Zoo. Pizza at Katie Downs.
If you do go to Snoqualmie Lodge/Falls, be sure to stop at teh Snoqualmie Brewery too. Some of the best beer in the great NW and they have a little mini pub/restaurant to imbibe and enjoy a great sandwich.
Actually I just got back from Ballard today. They had their seafood fair and it was great! Belltown has a ton of good restaurants. My girlfriend and I are conservatives but we just laugh at the ridiculous liberalism. You can’t avoid it, and yes sometimes the level of stupidity can be downright shocking, but don’t let it deter you from just walking some of the neighborhoods. I will concede that liberals can make some pretty darn good food, and some of their shops are really cool. Fremont is a lot of fun, and I highly recommend you go to Alki beach. You can see Seattle at night and it is breathtakingly beautiful. If you have particular interests I can give you more suggestions. BTW, beware of “meeting the man” at Dixie’s barbecue (also available at Safeco field) unless you can take some SERIOUS spiciness.
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