Nearby Adventures: South Beach, Washington

Weather on the Washington Coast is unpredictable year round. You can leave the blazing heat of inland to find nothing but cold wet fog draping the trees and dampening your enthusiasm for the outdoors. This weekend the coast opted for best behavior with sunny days in the 60s, a clear blue sky, and mild nights. …


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Down by the Sound at Pioneer Coffee

Pioneer Coffee is a small space with lots of windows that face out on parked cars, the Alki Beach promenade and Puget Sound. I’m always thinking that parking needs to be eliminated from these pedestrian heavy areas, opening up the views from the sidewalks and making the public spaces more pleasant. Pioneer’s location didn’t change …


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Nearby Adventures: White Center

On the short three block downtown radius in White Center, you can find a Halal shop that seems to serve mostly Ethiopian or Somalian clientèle, a handful of Vietnamese pho places, a Cambodian cafe and a Cambodian supermarket – as well as a few other markets that have a staggering variety of Asian and Mexican …


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Nearby Adventures: Auburn, Washington

Once upon a time Puget Sound had a lot more passenger rail. Trains ran hourly from downtown Seattle to downtown Tacoma. The Interurban line ran along what’s sort of the I-5 corridor these days. There was a street car that went up and down Queen Anne and another one that served West Seattle. Rail travel …


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This Ain’t Right

Last spring This spring In a freaky turn of events, it’s positively dumping snow on us. This is really not how spring is supposed to be in Seattle. A little wet, sure, but this? This is ridiculous. [tags]snow, Seattle[/tags]