Guide Books

  • October Takeover: DIY Ghost Tours: Guidebooks for your Local Ghosts

    ~posted by Blythe S. Have you ever wondered who is haunting your neighborhood? Ghost have purportedly taken up residence in a number of bars, theaters, restaurants, stores, parks and other places in Seattle–enough to create entire guidebooks on the subject. During October a number of worthy ghost tours are offered to guide you through dark,… Continue reading

  • Wonderful Old Guidebooks

    Who would take along a 1930s guidebook on a cross-country road trip across the United States? John Steinbeck, for one! Steinbeck makes reference to a set of depression-era guidebooks in his well-known travelogue Travels with Charley: In Search of America, which is about his 1960 road trip around the U.S. with his French standard poodle… Continue reading

  • Get Lost (Part 1)

    Road trippin’ with my two favorite allies… Fully loaded we got snacks and supplies… It’s time to leave this town… It’s time to steal away… Let’s go get lost… Anywhere in the U.S.A. Let’s go get lost…                                                                  Let’s go get lost… As a teenager I couldn’t wait to go on a road trip, but with… Continue reading