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Our Final West Coast Lifestyle Magazine Travel Tips Summary

June 6, 2006 at 10:30 AM | 0 Comments

This is our last summary of West Coast lifestyle magazine summer travel tips, we swear!

After noticing the perplexing status of Tofino in two West Coast US magazines as a top summer destination, we were just slightly worried when we picked up Seattle Metropolitan the other day at a Borders in Tacoma.

It turns out that there was no real reason to be scared. Seattle Metropolitan organizes things conceptually, see, so there's no opportunity to be hit over the head by our East Coast failure to grasp the reality that Tofino is the hottest new spot on the globe.

Phew. Sally Farhat and Val Mallinson's dossier of Seattle-proximate getaways is organized into several categories, including (among others) extremish outdoorsy activities, family fun, high-end retreats, foodie fixes, and chill-out zones.

Highlights? We dig the idea of escaping to a Benedictine monastery on Shaw Island, one of the stunning San Juan Islands. Our Lady of the Rock Monastery sounds like a peaceful retreat. Also rockin: Carlton, Oregon's Abbey Road Farm , a working farm in the middle of Oregon's Wine Country.

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