Pioneer Square, subterranean tours and a glimpse of the Klondike Gold Rush turn a weekend getaway into a historic adventure.
SEATTLE – It’s a rare weekend getaway that combines subterranean sidewalks, conflagrations and a Polar Bar, complete with glacier ice. Also walruses. A little Jules Verne. And the founder of Nordstrom.A century ago, private clubs devoted to scientific exploration were a thing – in real life, not just in Disney movies and “Around the World in 80 Days.
You expect Fogg and Passpartout – or their Klondike-prospecting equivalents – to walk in at any moment, perhaps after strolling through historic Pioneer Square, where modern-day Seattle began. That’s not hyperbole, we discover at the visitors center. Canadian authorities were so worried that naive fortune seekers would starve to death in the wilderness, they made it a border entry requirement that every person carry enough supplies — roughly 2,000 pounds of food, clothing and gear — to survive a year in the icy Yukon.
Afterward, we stop in at Damn the Weather — best name ever for a Seattle bar — for a charcuterie-style bite and a bit of research as we enjoy the cozy ambience of this century-old building, with its exposed brick walls.
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