Seattle TravelGram

The third annual Heineken City Arts Fest returns to Seattle Oct. 17–20, 2012 It’s time!  All access wristbands & individual tickets for the 2012 Heineken City Arts Fest are now on sale! The Fest begins on Oct. 17 with a performance by David Byrne & St.Vincent at Seattle’s historic Fifth Avenue Theatre and runs through Oct. [...]

The Quickest Way to Adventure in Seattle If you ask Seattle locals where Seacrest Park is, most will likely give up or make up an answer, but few will know which slice of land the city actually named Seacrest.  This park is long and skinny directly across Elliott Bay from downtown Seattle.  With a tiny [...]

12 Floating Homes to Explore on East Lake Union Sep. 9 Sunday, September 9 | 12 to 5 PM Question: Do you know what the difference is between a houseboat and a floating home?  Answer: A floating home is a house on a raft semi-permanently moored to a dock. It is always attached to city [...]

Argosy Cruises to an Island of Coast Salish Culture and Tradition I had the recent pleasure of choosing the hottest day of the year thus far to take an Argosy cruise out to Blake Island to see for myself this Tillicum Village I had heard of for years. I have often looked out from Seattle, [...]

Get Transported Through Time (and the Ship Canal) in a Classic Steam Powered Paddle Wheeler Relive the days of the 1890’s Alaska Gold Rush when fortune seekers journeyed from Seattle to the Klondike and paddle wheelers plied the waters of the Yukon River. New to Seattle in 2009, the Queen of Alaska changed her name [...]

See the colorful exhibit at Seattle Asian Art Museum and get a chance to travel to the source Head to Seattle Asian Art Museum during the month of July and not only will you see an amazingly vibrant exhibition, you’ll get a chance to travel to the source!  The exhibition is Colors of the Oasis: [...]

Learning about the History of Seattle from the Water The waterways of the Puget Sound and Elliott Bay are such an integral part of Seattle’s history, that learning that history from these waters just makes sense.  As our Argosy cruise director concurred on a recent sunny Saturday, the Taste of History theme lunch cruise, their [...]

Two local favorites,  Argosy Cruises and Kenmore Air have joined forces for this special trip combining a 2-hour narrated Lakes Cruise and a high-flying 20 minute scenic flight excursion on a seaplane that departs from South Lake Union! Start with Argosy for the cruise portion that highlights Seattle’s floating home community, history and facts of [...]

The name kinda says it all… “Seattle Food Tours,” that’s what owner, Michael Rogers was talking about when he had the idea a few years ago.  After a 10 year hiatus from working in kitchens to start his other company, Beeline Tours, Rogers realized there was a niche yet to be filled in Seattle that [...]

With that, the whale watching season has begun! The Gray Whales left their southern breeding grounds and are passing through our local waters on their way to the Bering Sea and they’re hungry!  Northbound whales cruise by in late February through early June, but some whales stick around, instead of migrating.  Reaching 45 feet in [...]