What a sweet note, yo. You should come back and now that you’ve done the Smithsonian circuit try heading up to the U Street corridor, up further to Rock Creek Park, and then down to Hains Point. The “real DC” can be awesome.

This is an undefined timeline for me, but I’m definitely moving out of the district before my kids start kindergarten.

We were at Crowne Plaza. The last morning we discovered we could access the metro through the Crystal City shops literally next door. The first day we trudged several blocks (passing lots of access pints) to get on the train. We did try 1 short trip on the bus and comparatively, not a fan. 😂

We also enjoyed We the Pizza!

I’m from TN (sorry it was disappointing) and we don’t have efficient public transportation. I was wishing for a blue line from my house to Target by the time I had made a couple of trips back & forth.

Edited to finish my thought.

I am so so glad you guys loved DC! This was so sweet! There are still toms to explore, hope you guys come back soon! 😎

I was in North Carolina before DMV. I was right on the border between the state Capitol (2nd largest city in the state), and the 7th largest. There were exactly TWO bus routes between them, and one was a semi-express. The nearest stops to me were a 1-mile walk to one route and 1½ miles to the other.

Now, I'm a suburb north of DC. There are two routes ½ mile away and 5 more one mile away.

Hiplock D1000 and Litelocks actually have quite good angle grinder defense. But they're not cheap.

> Latino/international markets because they’re cheap and the customer service is so much better than big grocery stores.

quality is also usually pretty good especially given the cheapness.

Was just about to type that. When is it opening?

I mean TX is just a million times bigger than DC. If the public transit wasn't better then something is dramatically wrong

Oh daang nice!! That’s one helluva trip.

Thanks!

Wow! That’s super nice! Thanks and come back again (autumn is especially nice).

Ay man! Glad you came through and enjoyed it! Come back again soon!

Im so glad you had a nice time! It’s a great city!

Same. Six years here and it's still amazing.

Panam on 14th street north of columbia heights!!

We flew to DC, then rented a car for the return trip so we could see Virginia, Tennessee, etc. Blue Ridge Mountains and Smokies were gorgeous. Virginia was beautiful. Really loved Virginia. Tennessee was mediocre, which I didn’t expect. Thought I’d love it, but liked Virginia more.

There’s a Rudy’s right outside my neighborhood in Texas. Damn good.

Thanks for the welcome!

We knew nothing. We wanted a Marriott. Side all my points are through Marriott from work. My wife found Crystal City and that it was connected by tunnels to the Metro. We had no idea if that would be super great, or dingy crap holes.

When we got there we looked up a local Chick-fil-A to get some Dr Pepper, as good Texans do. That led to some shop tunnels, but we quickly learned those weren’t the ones connected to the Metro. We decided to go exploring so we’d know what we were doing the next day. Found the right tunnels and walked to the Metro entrance and bought 3-day passes. I had downloaded the Metro app and knew that the Mall and Arlington could be reached on Blue line stops. For the zoo I knew we had to transfer at Metro Center to get on the red line.

So…we just figured it out as we went! We’re big planners so we tried to know as much as possible in advance. The different colored lines, plus the naming being the last stop the train is headed towards, made it seem pretty easy.

Glad everyone had a good time! DC really is great for how much stuff there is to do and how easy it is to get to that stuff. Personally I love how easy it is to take a trip away from DC since the metro now goes to two big airports. Yall take the metro back to the airport?

we also stole the person who ran your public transit system; big upgrade from the traditional crooks here!

plus you don't need a car to live in many parts of DC.

DC combines local and 'state' taxes. Texas decouples the two; you can't compare the two that way. Look up total tax burden. Heck, DC is lower than MD or VA for a typical family.

No Rudy's though.

Seriously, we're glad you had a good time! Come back anytime!

Nice! If I lived there and was anywhere near a metro I would sell my vehicle too.

The snow happened as we were driving through Virginia. Wasn’t in the forecast, came out of no where. Absolutely beautiful. And the state itself was great, we’d never been to Virginia.