Seattle & the Olympic Peninsula For Dummies [Paperback]

Jim Gullo (Author)

Book Description

Series: Dummies Travel | Publication Date: October 24, 2003

Your insider’s guide to the best places and prices

Enjoy the best of Seattle & the Northwest

Whether you want to walk around Seattle’s famous Waterfront, eat your way through Pike Place Market, hike in Olympic National Park, or stroll through charming towns on the Olympic Peninsula, the Northwest is a terrific vacation spot. But where to begin? Relax! This friendly guide shows you the way.

Discover:

• Down-to-earth trip-planning advice
• What you shouldn’t miss – and what you can skip
• The best restaurants and hotels for every budget
• Lots of detailed maps

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From the Back Cover

Your insider’s guide to the best places and prices

Enjoy the best of Seattle & the Northwest

Whether you want to walk around Seattle’s famous Waterfront, eat your way through Pike Place Market, hike in Olympic National Park, or stroll through charming towns on the Olympic Peninsula, the Northwest is a terrific vacation spot. But where to begin? Relax! This friendly guide shows you the way.

Discover:

• Down-to-earth trip-planning advice
• What you shouldn’t miss -- and what you can skip
• The best restaurants and hotels for every budget
• Lots of detailed maps

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 2 edition (October 24, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764539213
• ISBN-13: 978-0764539213
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #563,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #99 in Books > Travel > United States > States > Washington

More About the Author

Hi, I'm Jim Gullo, and I've written professionally for nearly twenty-five years as a freelance magazine writer, novelist and author of non-fiction books. My newest book, TRADING MANNY: HOW A FATHER & SON LEARNED TO LOVE BASEBALL AGAIN, will be published on March 13, 2012. Check it out!

MANNY allowed me to do something that I love: Grab hold of a subject and explore it through a personal journey. In this case, it was a 2-season journey with my intrepid and inquisitive son Joe, who asked the simple questions, "Why did professional baseball players use steroids?" and "Aren't they going to be punished?" that nobody seemed to address or answer. Trying to answer Joe's questions led us from spring training in Arizona to fields in Idaho where the legendary Walter Johnson got his start to Yankee Stadium and Jackie Robinson's grave in Brooklyn. It's a book that I think anyone who loves baseball will enjoy.

Before beginning the travels that would become TRADING MANNY, I sat down for about a year and a half and concocted a story that helped me come to terms with my father's premature death from heart disease, and my own questions about grief, loss and death. The result was FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH,a novel that I published in 2010 and is still available on Amazon and Kindle. It's a crazy, unusual story that draws from my childhood in a small, lakeside college town in New York State and my years as a travel writer. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

What a fun and fascinating career this is and has been -- literally a whole world to explore. As a travel writer for magazines like Islands and Aqua and Wingspan, I was able to visit some 35 countries on assignment and bring back stories about everything from scuba diving in Micronesia to golfing at St. Andrews to cruising the Sea of Cortes. These days I stay closer to home and write about the flourishing wine and food scene in Oregon, where I now live, on the web magazine that I edit and publish, www.OregonWine.com.

I'm now hard at work on a baseball-themed novel for young adult readers and a follow-up to TRADING MANNY.

I've always wanted to be a writer, ever since I wrote funny parodies of the school newspaper when I was 17 years old. I studied journalism and creative writing at the University of Arizona (1976-80), and spent a couple of years after college working for magazines in New York City in between bouts of satisfying my wanderlust by quitting jobs and going off to Europe for a year at a time. I then got sidetracked into doing public relations work for a few years, working first for Walt Disney Home Video in Burbank, where I helped launch the home video releases of Disney's animated features. I also did p.r. for Media Home Entertainment, an independent video distributor, where I promoted and publicized a wide range of genre movies, and staged publicity tours with the likes of Robert ("Freddy Krueger") Englund, an experience that led to my first magazine sale in Premiere. But I always wanted to be a writer, and at 30 years old I quit my job, moved to Hawaii and vowed to never take a 9-to-5 again.

I'm married to my sweetheart Kris, and we live with sons Joe and Henry and a golden retriever named Louis; my eldest son Michael is a professional jazz singer based in New York.

Thanks so much for spending some time with me and my books; I can be reached via my website, www.jim-gullo.com.

Cheers,
Jim Gullo