Friday Afternoon Discussion #4: Out-of-towners
Today is Veterans Day, so all the state workers and UDub students are off skiing or fighting for position at Costco. It’s also the symbolic start of the holiday run in Seattle. Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away, and then comes the Colorado-Nebraska game, er, the Chrismakwaanzukkah Consumer Season. And holidays mean relatives and other out-of-towners.
So, the question: BESIDES the Needle, Pike Place, and the waterfront tourist traps, where do you take out-of-towners when they come to Seattle?
I suggest a trip to the downtown library. Personally, I find it hideous, but it is so unique that some people will find it interesting.
And also far too many of my out-of-towners like to take a trip on the ferry.
Those are my suggestions.
time is running out for a ride on the waterfront streetcar, might be worth a a weekend nostalgia trip.
Shameless self-promotion: I would take them to seattle.metblogs.com, do a search on “visit” and make them read a bunch of other articles that people have written in the past 18 months, about where they’ve taken their visitors. A good example would be Rusty’s post not even one month old, at:
http://seattle.metblogs.com/archives/2005/10/blitzkrieg_tour_1.phtml
Fremont Troll.
Discovery Park.
Alki.
Elliott Bay Books if they’re readers.
Magnuson Park. Pity you can’t get to the Sound Garden anymore.
There are some cool things on the UW campus, like the great big fountain, Suzzallo Library, and the Henry.
The Frye is free!
Volunteer Park with the cool sculpture, the view westward, and the observation tower. And the conservatory full of cactuses, orchids, and such.
I really like Woodland Park Zoo.