Have any of you been to D.C.

[Double R 2]

My wife's inlaws are from that area and i worked up there for several months, one block east of the mall. It's a great place to visit. Plan on spending at least an entire day on the mall, where you can take in all of teh monuments and many of the museums, not to mention just sitting in teh shade of a cherry tree and watching all the people from around the world. If you've got bicycles, bring them and all the better. One of my favorite museums on teh mall is the art museum. You can get just about anywhere you want with the metro rail system, highly reccomended for it's cultural value alone.

Take the tour guide books for sure, but be sure to pick up daily editions of the Post to see what's going on, events etc. Lot's of great - free - musical oportunities, art and theater, etc.

Plenty of great restaurants around the beltway, I especially like the Clyde's down aroudnd West Springfield. Also, Old Town Alexandria can be fun.

Waterfowl? Rent a car and head over to Havre de Grace Maryland to the Madison Mitchell museum Museum (there's also a little resurant in town that serves awesome crab cakes) then head south to Salsbury to the Ward Brothers Wildfowl Museum and plan on spending a half day minimum looking at hand carved decoys fro all regions and eras, a nd getting a good feel of teh Chesapeake Bay waterfowling heritage (it's a must see).

We always try to take in an Orioles game over in Baltimore, MD, and if the kids are with us we walk over to the National Aquarium. Babe Ruth museum is just a few blocks away from the park, and it's pretty cool too.

Something different - hook up wioth a realtor and go do a little house shopping - $600k for a 3 bedroom, 30 year old home, 3000 square feet single car carport, or new houses starting at 800K for nothing special - make you proud to be heading back HOME after your visit.

[Spoonallard]

My wife's inlaws are from that area and i worked up there for several months, one block east of the mall. It's a great place to visit.

I was wondering where you found such a pretty wife. We need to get together so yall can tell us all about it. We are going in July. maybe we can come down and go out to eat before we leave.
Spoon

[Double R 2]

Sounds great. Just holler and we'll do dinner.

[DDT hunter]

Holocaust museum is very moving. Hard to imagine even after going through it.

[mudsucker]

His Wife's inlaws? Isn't that his parents?

[Double R 2]

:? His Wife's inlaws? Isn't that his parents?

Very clever Mr Bond....MY inlaws (wife's parents) . One of the most memorable tours i got in DC was going to teh hart Building and watching teh repubs grill Clinton's energy secretary when he let the strategic oil during gore's campaign. Standing right by the door when in walked Ted Kennedy - wide as two refrigerators and about webfoot's height...of course my natural redneck in big city tendency was to grab his hand and say hello (hey, ain't i seen you on tv or somewhere). After we left my host was thankful that I refrained, saying the black coats would have swarmed me like yellow jackets had I so much as turned to do so. We later went to the majority and minority senate offices for meetings and it was just unbelievable sitting there in a small 3-4 person meetings as proposed national policy unfolded. Used to take lunch breaks at the mall and watch insiders and tourists do their thing, or catch a metro to another area and eat at a park bench do the same thing. Everybody coming and going like theirs was the most important job on earth, irregardless. Hardest part about working up there was the nearly 2 hour haul to the office - 30 or so minute drive, an hour plus ride on the metro, and two block walk (when i managed to get off at the right place). Work 8-9 hours then reverse travel. Figured one day that at that rate a fella would spend an equivalent of 8 years commuting to work during a 30 year career. Go to lunch with some folks, someone would brainstorm some idea they thought of that morning in the shower and wheels would start turning, maybe a one page paper written, internal pitches made, and before you knew it new proposed policy was on it's way. It got exciting at times, always thinking and doing something that, at least at that time, seemed or felt important. Unbelievably, after two months up there I'd found plenty of hunting/fishing opportunities and if the right offer had come along in the right way, I'd have left small town MS and moved up there, no doubt about it. Two days before I left, one of my mentors pulled me aside for coffee and made a pitch and instead of saying hell yeah I said I'm going home for a few days and thinking about. Came back home to MS's teal season, away from the beltway buzz and decided things were just fine like they were. No regrets. But still enjoy going up there to visit.

[Duckdawg10]

You think Jafrica or Memphrica are bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You aint seen nothing yet!

[gamehog]

I was stationed in the metro DC three separate times. The guys have given you good advice on what to see and do. Great place to visit, lousy place to live.

I was able to find some great places to hunt up there, but it get's more difficult each year. Sucks to see a sweet goose field plowed under for a subdivision with close to $1M houses. Snotty ass people too. I had the state police called on me, nasty notes left on my windshield, "neighbors" cross the farmers fence line to try to throw me off land that wasn't their's, etc.

[Big Steve]

Like Mott said, DEFINITELY visit the Korean Memorial. You'll swear the statue's eyes are following you. My son was only 12 when I took him, and that lil redneck got goose bumps when my dad started telling him about Korea while we were standing there.
Another MUST SEE......."THE WALL". I don't care what day it is, what the weather is, how hot or cold or wet and nasty it might be, I guarantee you there will be a few vets there looking at their buddies' names on that black granite wall. Don't matter what your views on the war are, you gotta go see the names.
It goes without saying, watch where you go at night. Also, if you take a cab anywhere, be ready for some Hindu music on the stereo, and don't let them take you around the world to go 6 blocks!
Haven't been since 9/11, but have some pics of my son roller blading in front of the White House that'll he'll cherish forever!

[Spoonallard]

Man yall got me fired up. Can't wait to go and see our nations history. This poor MS boy aon't never been north of TN. Going to be a good trip.
Spoon

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BTW: Have a good trip.

[cwink]

Also, check out King Street in the Old Town Area. Lots of great shops and some great restraunts down by the water.

[mottlet]

The bums in Jackson are worse than the bums in D.C. Bums in Jackson will actually follow you around and bother you about your spare money. And they always want enough money to go and buy a whole damn shelf at the liquor store. The bums in D.C. on the other hand, are quite docile. Usually, they sit down somewhere with an old Wendy's cup that they hold out for people to deposit change in as they pass. Sometimes, if the bum is feeling aggressive, he might shake the cup as you go by; but this is the only form of communication. They certainly don't follow you in Greenbrook flowers as I have had happen to me in Jackson.

D.C. is a lot of fun; don't let anybody convince you otherwise. You remember that line from "Top Gun?" "The DOD regrets to inform you that your sons are dead because they were stupid." Don't do anything stupid in D.C. like wander around in Southeast after midnight and you'll be fine. However, it is a huge melting pot and if you insist that your cab driver/McDonald's order taker/etc. speak the King's English, well...you're gonna be disappointed. Sweet tea is hard to come by as well, but I'm on a one man crusade to change that.

mottlet

[Spoonallard]

I'll be fine. Didn't like sugar in my tea anyway. Just my women!