I must make a confession. My “Location” nonwithstanding, I’m not actually in DC yet. Until I go to college this fall, I’ll just be hanging around in Texas.
When I get there, though, I want to know what there is to do in Washington. So, anyone have suggestions???
Three things to keep in mind.
I’m on a budget. Not much dinero to fool around with.
I don’t have a car. Everything must be within walking distance from Foggy Bottom, or Metro accessable.
No booze/nightclubs, please. That’s not my style, you know what I’m saying?
Also, as a footnote, any Dopers going to George Washington University this fall? Just curious.
If you have a day to walk and a way to rehydrate yourself, take the Metro to the zoo and then walk to all the Smithsonians. If I were to make up a D.C. scavenger hunt for you, you’d have to:
Stand before Lincolon in his memmorial
make eye contact with a gorilla
make a rubbing at the wall
skip a silver dollar accross the patomic or the reflectiog pool
get a picture of yourself with some lovely foreign tourists
touch a historical plane in the Air&Space museum
Thought I wanted to go to GW, got accepted, changed my mind. I’ve been doubting myself thinking I made the wrong decision and that I should have gone, but it’s too late now. I think everything will work out, it’s just a bit cloudy right now.
I had a thread about GW on the boards about a month ago, you might want to check for that. I think yojimboguy made some suggestions in another thread. From what I can remember, most of the people that responded said Foggy Bottom was the most boring part of D.C.
And then there is us dopers, there’s shitloads of us here. I’m sure that another dopefest is gonna pop up in this area any second now and some kind individual is gonna offer you a ride.
Oh yeah, and you might want to practice sweating before you get here. We’ve gotten so good at it that we’re thinking of making it our state sport.
The thing I loved most about DC is that there’s a million things to do and they’re all free.
My two favorite things? Listening to the Netherlands Carillion while visiting the Iwo Jima memorial, and visiting the Jefferson Memorial at night to read the inscriptions on the walls.
The Smithsonian museums are free and you could spend a year there without seeing everything. Find the Einstein statue and the original FDR memorial. Go for a walk along Embassy Row. Visit the Korean War Memorial right after it snows. Eat a street lunch on the plaza outside the Navy Memorial.
And if you can find out what happened to (Chuck Smith, Woodbridge) I’d really appreciate it. [sub]Whatever happened to that guy, anyhow?[/sub]
Actually, I went there this summer to check it out my friend cause his sister’s going there. Pretty cool! Pool at the Hippodrome was pretty damn fun…not that that is a good suggestion for what to for four years. But I love pool. Hey…what session of Colonial Inaugaration did you go to?
I lived in D.C. for 4 and a 1/2 years, so I’ve got some suggestions for you, but they ain’t concerned with Foggy Bottom.
Hie your ass up to the “Tune Inn”, near the Capital building, on a Friday night, if you like country music on the juke box.
If you feel like relaxing on a Sunday, go over to the National Gallery of Art, and find one of those yellow chairs in the various vestibules; bring a Sunday Washington Post, sit in one of said chairs, lean back, relax, and be gently lulled to sleep by the soothing echoes of people talking as they walk by you, and the sounds of the fountains there.
And finally, make a trip by 114 Kentucky Ave., near Lincoln Park on Capital Hill, and make sure the people who currently inhabit that particular apartment are happy there. I know I was…
Chuck Smith still occasionally gets a prize in the Style Invitational. He’s just slowed down a little. I think that he’s still the person with the most overall quoted entries in the history of the contest.