Want to get away from the craziness that is Seattle during the Fourth of July? Try the San Juan Islands. This Seattlest will be packing her camping gear and kayak to explore the beautiful (and likely rainy, WTF?) San Juan Islands. If a tent and campfire are not up your alley, the islands offer a few inns and B&B’s that cater to every need from luxury spa service to private airplane tours. How do......

Another great photo courtesy of our Flickr Pool and Sprizee Generally, because we're a bit of a scaredy-pants, we can't sit through episodes of Ghost Hunters (or other such shows) without closing our eyes or plugging our ears. But we will most certainly make an exception if they do an episode on the ghosts of Washington State Ferries past. Apparently, the Washington State Ghost Society has been diligently trying to gain access to conduct......

Photo of Seattle tourists courtesy of the FBI About those photos we released to the world, implying you were terrorists...really sorry about that. Clearly, you're just innocent European businessmen who appear to be of Middle Eastern descent. On Monday, the FBI announced that a world-wide manhunt for two unidentified men who were spotted "acting suspiciously" on a Washington State Ferry last summer has been called off. The previously mysterious men in the photos went to......

Man, the ferry system is really having a time of it this year. First they realize that 80-year-old ferries might not be seaworthy or even worth fixing. Then no one wanted to buy a used ferry on eBay and mechanical issues put a ferry on the Pt. Defiance route out of commission earlier this month. And let us not forget the Ferry in a Storm pictures that were emailed around last fall. Now King......

It seems every time we check a local news site, which is pretty regularly...okay hourly, there's a report of another malfunctioning ferry. According to our unscientific, educated guesstimate, The Washington State Ferry Service has only had a few days of normal running schedules in the past month. Today's affected ferry route: the Point Defiance/Tahlequa service. The Rhododendron--a 48-car-capacity ferry which serving the route from Vashon Island--is suffering from mechanical problems. The boat will be......

Another gorgeous photo from slightlynorth As Seattlest reported a couple of weeks ago, Washington State was trying to unload a used passenger ferry on Ebay. Sadly, the time has come and gone for bidding on the Chinook, without an acceptable bidder. This wasn't one of the "your best offer" sales on Ebay, Washington State wouldn't part with the boat for less than $4.5million and no one laid down that kind of offer. Bidding on......