Karen’s coast side condo was an excellent location for our visit. We could walk to Alki beach (about 15 minutes-20 mins) which is a nice, quaint community with restaurants and beach access. You can see downtown Seattle from Alki. It’s also a nice walk (about 25mins) to downtown West Seattle which has a farmers market on Sundays (maybe other days as well) and many inviting coffee shops, bakeries, restaurants and shops. The area was a little slow due to COVID but there were plenty of restaurants, bakeries and coffee shops that were open for pick-up or outdoor seating. The Italian restaurant right down the street from Karen’s place, La Rustica, was open and the food was very good and reasonable. We sat outdoors and felt extremely safe eating there. You could actually see parts of the Sound and Olympic National Park from Karen’s condo - we had incredible weather and visibility during our stay. I would definitely stay at Karen’s place again.