Comments | spaggel: Seattle!

spaggel

Seattle!

Jul 15, 2010 01:12

Yes! I will be in Seattle starting tomorrow night with a good friend of mine, till Sunday. I'll be staying right next to Pikes Place on 2nd.

Any other good places I should be checking out? Shops? Bars? Food?

PLEASE INFORM ME ♥

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spacehussy July 15 2010, 08:13:33 UTC

THERE ARE SO MANY WONDERFUL THINGS. Where shall I begin? What are your interests?

spaggel July 15 2010, 08:16:14 UTC

Oh god, um, good cheap places to eat? We are total food loving people.

Cute little places to shop? Boutiques? I DONT KNOW?

A good place for a beer? even cheap beer? Um, I totally a sit around a listen to music on a patio and drink a beer person. BUT ALSO LIKE TO DRESS SASSY AND DANCE.

stereowire July 15 2010, 08:28:58 UTC

omg please go to the pig truck.

http://www.maximus-minimus.com/

spacehussy July 15 2010, 08:35:13 UTC

seconding the pig truck.

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bugeyedmonster July 15 2010, 10:09:31 UTC

If you're into independent comics, how about Fantagraphics Books?

FANTAGRAPHIC BOOKS
1201 South Vale Street
Seattle, WA 98108
Mon. - Sat 11:30 - 8
Sun 11:30 - 5
206-658-0110
Their facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/fantagraphics

Their web site
http://www.fantagraphics.com/

stereowire July 15 2010, 21:16:04 UTC

The Fremont Troll! Fremont is kind of a weird hippy-dippy place but the troll's pretty great. He even has his own street <3

Ballard and the locks are pretty cool. It's kind of a quirky neighborhood, I like to lump it in with Fremont to make FRELARD! Kind of equal parts bicycle-riding vegan hippies, and old Scandinavian fishing industry.

The Alaskan Way Viaduct has my favorite view of the city if you're driving northbound on it, but it is also literally about to fall to pieces any second. It's... part of the magic?

Capitol Hill, especially Broadway, which spacehussy kindly describes as "liberal", is "the" gay-friendly neighborhood (although honestly most of Seattle is, but the Hill also has a church with a giant rainbow flag hanging from it, so). It's also kind of a black hole of horrible douchey hipsters who'd rather be living in Portland, ymmv.

If you are a fan of oceans and nature-type things, there's like... Discovery Park, Golden Gardens, Alki Beach, ferries to the peninsula/islands... lol, I'm pretty sure there's a day tour where ( ... )