Quick! Get the hell outta downtown (approx a mile or two) and experience my favorite Seattle neighborhood, Queen Anne. On the cheap – bus it: from the 3rd & Pike bus stop, grab the #2, #13, #3 or #4 and just ignore the smelly locals and confused tourist headed to the Seattle Center (which you’ll pass by… wave!). You – stay on the bus and keep going up the hill and get off somewhere, anywhere on top.

First head to El Diablo Coffee on Queen Anne Avenue, grab a cup to go and pop in next door to Queen Anne Books to pick up your copy of the Queen Anne Steps MAP to enhance your neighborhood walk. Next, walk north towards downtown to Highland Drive (yes you will be walking a little bit back down the hill – it’s exercise!) – turn right – here you can get your photo op at Kerry Park that everyone at home is expecting. Most people stop there and turn back – but YOU will not – YOU will continue walking along W. Highland Drive till you reach Marshall Park with a great, quiet view of the Puget Sound. Continue even further along to the right where Highland turns to 7th Avenue W. you can see a bit more of how Seattle’s well financed folks choose to live. Just keep going this way all the way and you’ll wrap back up around to Queen Anne Avenue… don’t worry – look for the joggers or the dog walkers or the nannies and you’ll catch the scent of QA AVE.

McGraw Street will take you to the very northern tip of QA AVE and if it’s after 5pm stop in How to Cook A Wolf and have some dinner. It ain’t cheap but hey you took the bus! BTW… if you need to grab the bus back to DT.. take the 13 right across the street from HTCW…

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