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play”—and you find yourself doing li le
foot shuffles as you stroll through Bell-
town toward dinner.
The narrow, candlelit eatery
Spur
calls
itself a gastropub, but the food is more
adventurous than thatword suggests. The
duck pastrami that you order, at least, is
more gastro thanpub. Also, the bartenders
havemastered the art of pairing cocktails
with food—you try the pear rum swizzle
with Dungeness crab salad, and still have
roomfor a portionof potato chip ice cream
with beer foam (really).
Finally, endowed with a fresh respect
for flash-fried spuds, you take a taxi back
to Hotel 1000, head up to your room and
commence the long process of digestion.
DAY THREE
| You’ll be hi ing the water
again today, albeit in amuch smaller cra .
You’ve recruited the Evergreen Escapes
guys to drive you to chilly
Lake Union
,
where you spend the morning flailing
ART AND SOUL
Clockwise from above, the
Blood and Sand, a favorite tipple at Rob Roy;
the lush gardens of JMCellars winery; Alexander
Calder’s
Eagle
in the Olympic Sculpture Park;
the savory roast pork sandwich at Salumi