Idle Thoughts/Hal Briston East State Tour: DC Dopefest, Saturday, December 17th.

Hal Briston and I will be in Washington DC on this day, in the afternoon/evening sometime. If anyone would like to meet, let me know, we might be able to get together for an hour, two, or three for a bite to eat or something along that nature.

Proposed places to meet:

Ray’s Hellburger

From this thread, quite a few people have seemed to express interest so far:

Skywatcher
MsRobyn
Edward the Head
FairyChatMom
RTFirefly
iiandyiiii
Snooooopy
2gigch1
Annie-Xmas
Count Blucher

Maybes:

Furryman
Bobkitty

I’m definitely interested - might even be able to persuade my spousal unit to come along. We’ll see how this looks closer to the date. Yay!

Awesome! Barring something weird, I will expect to be there. I suggest somewhere Metro accessible, and if we have a large enough group, a reservation and maybe even a private room.

If I may, there’s a great burger place called Ray’s Hellburger (shakes, beer, and wine) that’s pretty roomy inside, in Arlington, a few blocks from a metro station and 5 minutes by train from DC. http://www.rayshellburger.com/ray-s-hell-burger.html

Don’t forget to take nudes of each other.

I’m in, and I second (or whatever) the desire to be close to the Metro. I hate driving in DC and avoid it wherever possible. Depending on the final plans, I might even make a sightseeing day out of it. We’ll see.

Metro - yes!

I don’t think I’ll be in town.

Put me down as a maybe, please.

I have edited the OP to include some more details. I put the proposed Ray’s burger place in there. Others can feel free to nominate or suggest other places if they know the area well and then maybe we can vote on it or just say if you’re fine with a place.

Works for me.

I should be there. Wherever there ends up being.

It’s likely I’d be able to make it. Don’t know about Ms. P or our 16 year old son. Older S probably won’t be finished with finals yet.

That’s a good, driveable location for me, and actually a better option than parking at the Branch Ave Metro and riding from there. I’m good with Ray’s.

If FairyChatMom is right and it’s driveable (and parkable), then I’d like to come. I live a bit outside of the Metro area and would like to drive there.

There’s an entrance to underground 2-hour parking right next door.

I haven’t guaranteed that Ray’s takes reservations for large groups, but I will ask them this week. If they don’t, we could still probably do it as long as it’s not at peak time (so Saturday afternoon would probably be fine, Saturday evening might be too crowded to get a big table).

If getting a table turns out to be a problem, I’ve found a place nearby that looks interesting.

Heavy Seas Alehouse

I haven’t been there but I’ve heard good things, and it’s in the same area (almost the same block!), so that’s probably a good choice too. I’ll call Ray’s this week.

I’m in, and Ray’s is fine. :slight_smile:

The point about the crowds/reserving a large table is a good one, plus an afternoon thing would work better for me than an evening thing.