This week Jaunted editor Juliana will be sharing her experiences from a recent field trip to Seattle where she wasn't afraid to do all the touristy things in town. Any questions or tips? Let us know.
On our last day in Seattle, we needed one more touristy thing to round out our weekend of tourist excursions. So we headed on down to the Pier 55 to take a water taxi to West Seattle.
The Pier here is not as huge as the Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco and fortunately, not as gross. But the numerous t-shirt and souvenirs shops, dodgy food stands, street musicians and "family" restaurants along the pier reassure you that yes, you have walked into a tourist trap.
One stand-out is the 100-year-old Ye Olde Curiosity Shop which is a really strange place and not in a cool/strange way. There are weird nautical and non-nautical mementos and objects inside and the sign out front when we walked in was advertising Mexican Jumping Beans. Weird, right?]]>