On 2/15/15 2:20 PM, Abit Loco wrote:
On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:27:48 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 12:39:00 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 2/15/15 12:33 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:08:09 -0500, Abit Loco
wrote:

On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 02:27:53 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 21:37:59 -0500, Abit Loco
wrote:


I remember being able to drive down from Annapolis in less than an hour
and find a parking place on the street right at the main entrance to the
Smithsonian. Must not have visited during tourist season.

Your odds of winning the Powerball lottery are probably better than finding a parking
spot there during the summer. Best to park at a far metro station and take that into
town.

If you time it so you are just getting there at 10, you can score but
there will be someone waiting for you too pull out. If I couldn't find
a spot, I would just go home. I was passing through anyway. I usually
decided which museum I would visit by where I parked. They are strung
out all along the mall there and you have plenty of choices. Most of
the year parking is not that tough tho.
Another cool spot is Haines Point. I caught a small mouth bass off of
that seawall once on a rubber worm. I didn't really have anything to
do with it so I tossed it back.

Hanes Point was always a great place to take kids so they could climb and play all
over 'The Awakening'. But, since they've moved the statue to National Harbor (where I
won't go), the point has lost it's big attraction.

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The golf course isn't bad if there's been no rain recently. It's a nice one for
walking.

I have some pictures of me climbing on that one. We had to jump over
the fence to do it because they were getting ready to move it. I am
still not sure why they had the fence there tho. Nobody was working
there.


It's sited nicely at National Harbor. Couple of decent restaurants
there, but not much else that appeals to us. We sometimes hit one of the
seafood joints if we're downtown and I've happened to drive in...

I looked at the national harbor over the bridge but we didn't get down
there.
I remember when the whole area was a wetland.

Shortly after the place opened, my wife and I decided to stop there for a cup of
coffee and look around. We were on the 21' Proline at the time. If you look at a
satellite map of the place, you can see if's got about a half mile of concrete pier,
not counting the marina.

Just about the time we got ready to dock, a young guy in a nice green sport coat
comes running over asking if he can help us. I told him we were just stopping for a
cup of coffee and a looksee. He replied, "Docking is $10 an hour."

So we left. Went to the Starbucks in Alexandria where docking is free. I don't think
I've ever seen any boats tied to the long pier.



Parking a car isn't free, either.

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