![]() ![]() Fantasize with your friends about what it would be like if Spokane had a Cheesecake Factory.Ģ8. Try to get a ticket to see the Zags play, but realize that’s impossible because you’re not rich and McCarthey Athletic Center only seats 6,000 people.Ģ7. Loudly explain to the trivia host at the Iron Goat that truth is inherently unknowable and his epistemological arrogance shows his lack of maturity.Ģ6. Take that road trip to Colfax you and your wife have always dreamed of.Ģ5. Come up with the most offensive name possible for the drinks at your recently opened daiquiri bar, and don’t let the “haters” force you into apologizing.Ģ4. Bottle up all your emotions at the Milk Bottle.Ģ2. Get your legs all scratched up by blackberry bushes at Green Bluff.Ģ1. A time will come when he will repay you for your kindness.ġ9. Remove a thorn from a wounded marmot’s paw. Get in a debate with your relatives about whether it’s pronounced “‘crick’ or ‘creek’ and “cay-yo-tee or “cay-yote.”ġ8. Argue with your Seattle friends that Spokane does TOO have a thriving arts and music scene.ġ7. Stand outside a Gonzaga basketball game telling everyone that, actually, in the original Italian, it’s correctly pronounced “Gon-zaaah-ga.”ġ6. Swear that someday, someday, you’ll escape this town and go onto great things, but get so caught up in the day-to-day busyness of life that you never actually leave.ġ5. Burn the evidence and feed the ashes to the Garbage Eating Goat.ġ4. Warn your neighbors about “suspicious teens walking on sidewalk” on .ġ3. Experience Spokane’s sophisticated culinary palate by scarfing down a “Block o’ Fries” at Pig Out in the Park.ġ2. Get questioned by Border Patrol at the Greyhound Bus station.ġ1. Tell your family you love them, one last time.ġ0. Listen to Mayor David Condon’s riveting spoken-word monologue about utility rates.ĩ. Write a seven-page letter to the editor of the Spokesman-Review asking, “Whatever happened to the comic strip ‘Ziggy?”ħ. ![]() Wag your finger disapprovingly at the kids feeding the ducks at Manito Park.Ħ. Bring whoever keeps throwing “The Pinch” on your front porch to justice.ĥ. Buy a Bloomsday shirt at Value Village so people think you’re occasionally active.Ĥ. Develop an increasingly violent Caddyshackian feud with a South Hill turkey.ģ. Stand in the center of downtown and think to yourself, “Wow! This might be the very same spot that Craig T. Here, then, are 101 things to do in Spokane before you die:ġ. ![]() We figured it wouldn’t take much to one-up them. (See actual covers at the bottom of this story.) Louis, employing the same template that Reedy has used for guidebooks to such wondrous locales as Reno, Tucson, Eugene, Omaha and Traverse City, Michigan. It largely consists of obvious activities and it’s being published by Reedy Press in St. Today, the Spokesman-Review is releasing a new guidebook to the Lilac City titled 100 Things to Do in Spokane Before You Die. ![]()
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