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Summer Travel—-Culinary Tours and Fourth of July Savings

Some of Seattle’s most popular chefs are heading up a unique tour this summer designed to get foodies to hit the road for a taste of the Northwest.

The top-rated chefs are teaming up with Gray Line of Seattle bus company this summer for eight new culinary tours. Each tour features a visit with a chef from a popular Seattle restaurant. Participating eateries include Crush, Troiani Ristorante Italiano, El Gaucho, Sky City at the Space Needle, Chandlers Crabhouse on Lake Union, Daniel’s Broiler at Lake Union, Waterfront Grill and Palisade.

During the tour individual chefs will greet participants at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel and accompany them to a participating market, such as the historic Pike Place Market, farmers’ markets and the Uwajimaya Asian Marketplace, to shop for the day’s ingredients. From there the group will return to the chef’s restaurant for a cooking demonstration and a discussion on all things culinary. Guests get to sample the tasty creation and take the recipe home.

Chef Jason Wilson of Crush, named best new chef of 2006 by Food & Wine Magazine, kicks off the culinary tour program June 28th.

The four-hour tours cost $100 per person.

If you still haven’t made your travel plans for the long Fourth of July holiday consider heading to Tucson, Arizona. The Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort located in the picturesque Santa Catalina Mountain range is offering a spectacular special just in time for Independence Day.

The resort’s 4th of July Extravaganza package features two- and three-night stays that start at just $139 per night for a room with two queen beds or $169 for a junior suite. Part of the package deal includes seats for the big fireworks display that illuminates the desert sky on the 4th. Your family can also go horseback riding, golf, play tennis on one of the resort’s 31 tennis courts, or cool off on the hotel’s 143-foot Sliderock waterslide.

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About Michele Cheplic

Michele Cheplic was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, but now lives in Wisconsin. Michele graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism. She spent the next ten years as a television anchor and reporter at various stations throughout the country (from the CBS affiliate in Honolulu to the NBC affiliate in Green Bay). She has won numerous honors including an Emmy Award and multiple Edward R. Murrow awards honoring outstanding achievements in broadcast journalism. In addition, she has received awards from the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association for her reports on air travel and the Wisconsin Education Association Council for her stories on education. Michele has since left television to concentrate on being a mom and freelance writer.