With people forgoing expensive vacations, the Seattle papers have been giving us travel ideas closer to home. And it turns out the Seattle P.I.’s restaurant reviewer, Leslie Kelly, now has a yearlong Space Needle pass. A yearlong pass? I suppose perhaps if you had frequent visitors to show around town it’d be a savings, but Kelly just enjoys the view. So she bought the $59 “sunset” pass (good only in the evenings) and intends to take the 41-second-long elevator trip every single day in 2009. You can tell she’s serious about that because she’s started a blog to chronicle her vertical travels. She was up on the observation deck when her husband called with the news that Hearst was going to sell (or effectively close) the P.I. She’s gathered so much Space Needle trivia already, I’m not sure she’ll have much more to say in the remaining 11 months, but it’s certainly a personal journey.