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HereComesHR OP t1_jcom7lz wrote

Reply to comment by 2lurky4you in Recent DC Trip by HereComesHR

I stayed in green belt many years ago on a trip with my girlfriend at the time. What a lovely area.

Air and Space was fantastic. About half of it is still closed for construction so we didn’t get to see a big chunk of it.

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appreciativeoldperv t1_jcolj51 wrote

Reply to comment by wanderouswanderer in Recent DC Trip by HereComesHR

Well, just eliminate the aforementioned manmade stuff and do the rest. Ocean, bay, mountains. Even though the slogan was made up by a beer executive, before it was the hub of Federal Government this really was the land of pleasant living.

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2lurky4you t1_jcoii7r wrote

Glad you enjoyed it! I grew up nearby so we'd do school field trips to the mall every year or so. When we finally took the Metro in from greenbelt it was the coolest thing. I still love taking the Metro and looking out the window at the city.

How was air and space? I hear the renovated space is really nice.

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reflectioninternal t1_jco6qcn wrote

I live in DC and I'm visiting Austin rn, and I just gotta say, right back at you buddy. I'm lucky the friend I'm visiting has a guest bedroom on 6th st, I'm having an amazing time. If you live where my friend lives things are mostly walkable (though he admits having a car is a necessity). Visited the LBJ library, and a bunch of amazing venues full of people having fun and living life to the fullest. 10/10.

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kungfu-barbie t1_jco2tbe wrote

We are from Texas, too and just returned from DC. Was cold, but great. I agree about the Metro. Wish we had something like that here.

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CandyCaneCrisp t1_jco2ize wrote

Reply to comment by HereComesHR in Recent DC Trip by HereComesHR

I hope you can make it back again some year when they are at peak bloom. There's also a very nice neighborhood called Kenwood in Maryland just a mile or so from the border which is fully planted with the same Yoshino cherries. Here's a cool live feed of the trees at the Tidal Basin: https://www.bloomcam.org/

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QueMasPuesss t1_jco1puv wrote

Reply to comment by RedfishSC2 in Recent DC Trip by HereComesHR

Dallas has great Korean, Ethiopian and Vietnamese food and decent Thai and Salvadorian. Houston has the best Vietnamese and Chinese food outside the west coast imo (though queens gives houston a run for its money with Chinese food.)

Edit: though I think DC has better French and Italian than major Texas metros, plus a greater variety of more obscure cuisines (by American diasporan standards) due to the breadth of diversity, ie Balkan, Uyghur, Bangladeshi, Peruvian, Georgian, Filipino, Portuguese, Russian etc etc.

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QueMasPuesss t1_jco1g03 wrote

Reply to comment by janmint in Recent DC Trip by HereComesHR

Cactus Cantina is pretty mediocre. It was dubya’s favorite place but he’s from Connecticut. Ironically their lomo saltado is one of the best things on the menu.

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