The Burke-Gilman and the larger trail system. Large single map at the bottom of the page.

Quoted: Maps & trails - Bicycling resources - King County Road Services Division. Learn where to pick up King County's free Bicycling Guidemap or download the map and take it to a copy center or print shop and have it printed on a plotter.

quoted: a plaque marks the spot where the 'forgetting tree' once stood, round which the slaves were marched nine times, to wipe their memories clean of their old life and prepare them for the horrific time ahead

on the writer's website: essays, interviews, travel writing, ficciones, reviews...

At first glance this looks like a pretty good photoblog. It has a distinct tilt to covering the work of photojournalists/travel photogs.

Quoted: Slum tourism, or “poorism,” as some call it, is catching on. From the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the townships of Johannesburg to the garbage dumps of Mexico, tourists are forsaking, at least for a while, beaches and museums for crowded, dirty — and in many ways surprising — slums.

Quoted: The group’s philosophy is also its method, which might be summed up this way: I will offer you my couch free, along with the company of my friends and a tour of my favorite spots in my city. In return, you will give of yourself, and not just slink into my home at 3 a.m. after you’ve done your own tour of my city. In this way, we will be friends, if only for a day or two.

I visited Arcosanti a couple of years ago. It's an interesting place to say the least :-). The article includes a slideshow.

Quoted: Paolo Soleri, a former student of Frank Lloyd Wright, began construction of this ecologically harmonious community in 1970. With its radical conservation techniques and a brilliantly scrunched-together layout, Arcosanti was intended to reinvent not just the city, but also man's relationship to the planet: picture a 60s vision of a Mars colony, but with a cutting-edge, eco-friendly design. ...Through a carefully managed density, the impact is minimal, and the idea of community is reimagined.

Quoted: Even if you buy nothing, the 19th century shopping arcades of Paris are full of atmosphere for the post-modern tourist.

Quoted: Rain, especially the mild intermittent rain of the Pacific Northwest winter, is the varnish on two exotic gardens.

Quoted: Where Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina meet, tourists are discovering the haunting remains of a Jesuit social experiment.