The city is located on a sound, and not directly onto the Pacific Ocean. It's near the border with Canada, and just over the border you will find the Canadian city of Vancouver. To the South you can reach Portland in 4 hours by train. Downtown Seattle is very walkable, and reasonably small in size. Famous attractions are the Pike Market and the Space Needle.Seattle has suburbs like Bellevue. North of Seattle we find a man originally from Prague who saw inflatable kayaks in Prague in 1990 and in 2011 sells them from Burlington, WA (Washington State). The solar and Safari model can be carried as a backpack and used as handluggage. The backback also serves as a storage bag on these kayaks. This is some creavive thinking, but yesn the man is from Prague. http://www.innovakayak.com