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Links to Seattle By Foot in the news!

November 2009 thru February 2010: Racing to Save Lives
Seattle By Foot tour guide, Anna Nordstrom has joined Team In Training, part of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), to compete in a triathlon and raise money for LLS.
• Every 4 minutes one person is diagnosed with a blood cancer.
• Every ten minutes, someone dies from a blood cancer.
• The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) has invested more than $680 million in research since 1949 – over $69 million in 2009 – specifically targeting leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.

$1 of your Seattle By Foot tour admission will go to support the
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

December 2009: Seattle Seahawks vs San Francisco 49’s
Great weekend for exploring Seattle By Foot for visiting 49’s fans!
Seattle by Foot guides you to amazing coffee shops, brew-pubs, sports indside scoops and the city on each of our walking tours.

The tally is in. $300 has been donated to Puget Sound Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure for the weekend fundraiser. Thanks for coming on the tours last weekend! It was wonderful to have a breast cancer survivor on the city tour!

August 2009: Seattle Coffee Crawl mentioned in the August issue of Marie Claire. The Seattle Coffee Crawl is a favorite haunt of Seattle hottie!

July 2009: Seattle Pub Crawl named a “Top 5 for $25″ by the Ladies Room on Movin 92.5.

June 2009: Seattle Coffee Crawl named a Must Do in Seattle Magazine.

King5 goes on the Seattle Coffee Crawl.
By Travis Pittman
Get to know joe in Seattle

Don’t Miss It!

Coffee: The World In Your Cup
at the Burke Museum – http://www.burkemuseum.org
Extended through September 7, 2009!

He’s Baaaack!
Ken Griffey Jr. signs with the Seattle Mariners!
I can’t wait to see that awesome smile grace the diamond at Safeco!

Griffey’s 2nd time in Seattle and a $2 million contract = $2 off the Seattle Coffee Crawl

Enter ‘Griffey‘ in the Discount Field when reserving tickets and receive $2 off admission.
Offer is good through the end of Spring Training on April 5, 2009!
Now that’s a homerun for your wallet!

See more Griffey hoopla:
Comeback Kid
Griffey’s Return Creates a Buzz
By John Hickey P-I Reporter

Great story about the Seattle 2008 Sports Year by Jim Caple.
We’ll miss you Tuba Man.
Click here to link to article.

Seattle Coffee Crawl Gift Certificates

Just in time for the holidays!
Give a fun and unique gift to family and friends.

Seattle Times Article 12/17/08

Click here to link to article.

A stroll through Seattle’s coffee culture.

Seattle By Foot’s Coffee Crawls last about two hours and snake through downtown Seattle, from Seattle’s Best Coffee at Pike Place Market to Zeitgeist Coffee in Pioneer Square, with sips and tastes of various caffeinated beverages along the way.

By Karen Gaudette
My sweater sleeve smells like fresh-ground coffee. So does my wool hat. By the third stop of a Coffee Crawl led by Seattle By Foot, java not only has filled my brain and belly, it permeates my very being.

I’m amid a pack of ladies trooping merrily along in the rain (of course) behind Vicki Schuman, a former airline business analyst. The idea of an adventure that combines Seattle’s history and coffee culture percolated in her head for years before she launched a tour of downtown coffee spots last summer.

“Working in the airline industry we’d travel a lot and I just fell in love with walking tours,” she said. “I wanted to do a tour of something that was unique to Seattle.”

Schuman pours out local trivia, notes architectural highlights en route and produces a map of the world’s coffee-growing regions to better explain the origins of beverages sampled over two hours: A peppermint mocha with whip at Seattle’s Best Coffee; single origin roasts from Panama, Kenya and Colombia at Seattle Coffee Works; rich Ephemere hot chocolate at Dilettante Mocha Café; a demitasse of Clover machine-brewed Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, fragrant with the aroma of blueberries at Trabant Coffee & Chai.

We learn of the beginnings of Monorail Espresso — now a walk-up window at Fifth and Pike but once one of Seattle’s first coffee carts, back in the 1990s when carts with their rainbow of flavored syrups ruled the sidewalks. Store owners share how blends are made and demonstrate the lengths the truly passionate will go with temperature, filtration and other variables to brew what they deem a glorious cup of joe.

So far, Schuman’s patrons have hailed from nearly every state and many a nation. On a recent December morning, however, they hail from here: a group of women determined to see more of their city. Over the past few months they knocked out the Central Library, the Scuplture Park, the Lucy exhibit at Pacific Science Center and an Argosy Cruise.

“It’s all the cool stuff you never go to because you live here and you’re busy,” said Cece Fitton of Seattle. She and friend Rosemary Harer said the tour showed them new pockets of the city and a whole lot about coffee.

Perhaps the greatest challenge Schuman faced was selecting the “right” combination of coffee spots in a city that teems with independent roasters and espresso purveyors, as well as java junkies abuzz with their own opinions. Those she chose offer a tasty survey of the region’s caffeinated roots along a route that starts at Pike Place Market and snakes past local landmarks (and more than a handful of Starbucks) to end at Zeitgeist Coffee in Pioneer Square.

The Seattle Times published this article about the new Seattle Coffee Crawl tours on May 30, 2008.