With the impending release of the new Star Wars movie “The Force Awakens”, Star Wars mania even spread to the 23rd Annual Gingerbread Village at the Seattle Sheraton. This annual charity event serves as a friendly competition between a select group who go all out in creating food-based sculpture.
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Macy’s sponsors and runs its famous Thanksgiving Parade the day after Thanksgiving each year. It’s Black Friday shopping day after all, so it gets lots of people downtown. The parade offers a classic range of sights and sounds: waving people, candy throwers, the mayor, dancing troupes, marching bands, […]
The Alamo is the classic source of Texan pride and independence. It memorializes men who fought long and hard against high odds, but didn’t give up. It’s a shrine of sorts now, full of history, architecture, and stories. And it is right in the middle of a […]
The River Walk of San Antonio is a marvel of government foresight, commercial cooperation, targeted tourism, and making a positive out of a negative. They took a “build it and they will come” gamble, and it paid off.
The River Walk follows a well planned and developed set of walking […]
The Point Robinson Lighthouse is a great getaway that is close to Seattle yet on the quiet, rural island of Maury Island, connected to Vashon Island. In addition to views, beach walks, and history, the Lighthouse Keeper’s Quarters are available to rent and enjoy the waterfront experience more fully.
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Smash Putt is a somewhat unusual creation that rises every year or so in an empty warehouse space somewhere around Seattle. Each new incarnation includes prior favorites mixed with newly creative holes. Unlike regular miniature golf, Smash Putt has wacky indoor obstacles that raise the bar and generally […]
Dick and Jane’s Spot is a unique and eclectic yard art “exhibition” available for viewing 24/7 in the town of Ellensburg. It all began around 1980 when artists Dick and Jane (who also had a dog Spot at the time) started creating pieces to jazz up the outside of […]