BAR wrote:
hk wrote:
Eisboch wrote:

"hk" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:

On Jan 18, 8:17 am, HK wrote:

Bathroom anxiety certainly is a concern, but fortunately, several
unions
within a couple of blocks of the Capitol are having an open house
and...more important...access to bathrooms... :)


Once that word gets out I'll bet the open house closes.

Eisboch


Well, you probably will need a union ID. That's what the unions do
during legislative meetings...you can't get in without some sort of
appropriate ID...but with two million souls on the mall, it could
easily get out of hand! :)

Being the 56,723rd person to climb into a porti-potty on the mall is
a scary thought.

Getting out of town is going to be a bitch, too. The only good way
is to wait for the crowds to thin out a bit and then head for a
metro station not well known to the touristas.


When I was stationed in Annapolis during my last two years in the
Navy, we would often zip down to DC on weekends and hang out at the
museums and/or walk the various sites. It was always fun, you
learned something during every visit and I got to know how to drive
in and out with no problems. We would leave our house early in the
morning, get a full day in in the Capital area, and be home for
dinner. I often used to get a parking place on the street right
across from the Smithsonian's main entrance.

I'll bet all that has changed now.

Eisboch


Actually, the last few times we went to any of the museums, we found
on-street parking no more than a block away. We tend not to go,
though, during tourist season, unless there is someting spectacular
and short-term at one of the art galleries. There's also parking where
my wife works, and it's only a block from there to the Metro.

We hop on the Metro out at Shady Grove and ride down to the Smithsonian
Station. No need to worry about driving into DC and all of the freaking
non-law abiding bicyclist, one-way streets and parking meters and
general hassle of driving.


Metro is the way to go, no doubt about it. If the Metro is ever extended
to Tysons Corners, why...I might go out there again!

I'd like to see the Metro extended to Annapolis, and also to the old
race track in PeeGee County, but there's no money for that.