You know the drill: DC

**WannaBe_80z** · 06-12-2006, 11:22 AM

My sisters husband has been accepted to SUNY in NY to get his PH.D as of right now he works in a branch of the pentagon and they will be moving back up around here in august so this is my last chance to go down to DC and have a free place to stay. I will be hitting up all the usual things to do in the DC area(already got a tour around the pentagon) but do any of you know some small little places to check out that are a little off the beaten path? odd ball shops or anything?

**lefteyewilly** · 06-12-2006, 11:38 AM

when you're in the outskirts of DC (around the convention center), do not and i seriously say DO NOT go down any side streets you're not aware of on foot. I was there for a conference, and i walked no more than 2 blocks away from my hotel to grab a six pack, in the day time, and i'm not exagerating when i say i thought i was going to be skinned alive. When i was walking back with my six pack (in a brown bag), i saw a group coming towards me and then they started yelling, "Get the F*** out of here whitey" along with many other racists things. I was never so scared in my entire life.

**WannaBe_80z** · 06-12-2006, 11:40 AM

Yeah I hear there are some parts of DC that are like...you walk there you get killed. Sounds exciting. haha.

**Ask The Geezer** · 06-12-2006, 11:41 AM

Well, unless Georgetown has really changed, it ought to be full of neat little shops.

**WannaBe_80z** · 06-12-2006, 11:48 AM

Thanks I will look into it. My guy friend that is going with me is obsessed about going down into Chinatown. I can't think of anything special there so I will probably just let him drag his girlfriend around down there and me and my lady friend will go elsewhere.

**Ask The Geezer** · 06-12-2006, 11:50 AM

Stay in NW, west of Rock Creek park.

**japangreg** · 06-12-2006, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by lefteyewilly

when you're in the outskirts of DC (around the convention center), do not and i seriously say DO NOT go down any side streets you're not aware of on foot. I was there for a conference, and i walked no more than 2 blocks away from my hotel to grab a six pack, in the day time, and i'm not exagerating when i say i thought i was going to be skinned alive. When i was walking back with my six pack (in a brown bag), i saw a group coming towards me and then they started yelling, "Get the F*** out of here whitey" along with many other racists things. I was never so scared in my entire life.

I live 2 blocks away from the convention center (sorry if I scared you, whitey =^_^=)

Chinatown is a joke - it's only 3 blocks long and has 2 or three shops that are actually in any way Chinese.

If you like the blues at all, try checking out a little spot in g-town called (ironically enough) Blues Alley. My favorite live-music spot got shut down a few years ago, by the alley has a great rep.

**WannaBe_80z** · 06-12-2006, 12:07 PM

Thanks I am definitely looking for some night life stuff to do. I don't wanna spend all day going to the stereotypical spots and then just sit in my sisters apartment at night.

***gerbick*** · 06-12-2006, 01:40 PM

the way it looks... I'll be in DC/Baltimore this weekend too... as far as places, dunno... I tend to go all over.

Don't depend on Visionray for a callback either... dude owes me a phone call back from '97 or something.

**WannaBe_80z** · 06-12-2006, 01:53 PM

You will be there this weekend too? business? are you a nomad?

***gerbick*** · 06-12-2006, 01:54 PM

pretty much a nomad now. wondering the world over much like Dr. David Banner... but I'm looking for new contracts to replace my dead ones. He was trying to supress his "Hulk tendencies"...

*rowr*

**WannaBe_80z** · 06-12-2006, 02:03 PM

So do you not really have a "home" like a place to go back too? you just travel around with all your stuff? I always pictured you in some decent apartment wired from floor to ceiling with gadgets

**Ask The Geezer** · 06-12-2006, 02:09 PM

Come on, everyone knows Gerbs travels, on call, with the Sparkmobile.

***gerbick*** · 06-12-2006, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by WannaBe_80z

So do you not really have a "home" like a place to go back too? you just travel around with all your stuff? I always pictured you in some decent apartment wired from floor to ceiling with gadgets

the apartment is gone, now a house. yeah, it still is "connected", et al, but at the same time I have to travel to find new work, it seems. Upper-state SC is devoid of technical jobs... other than janitorial work it seems.

And I've actually dropped a lot of gadgets. Not too many left... what couldn't be updated, got dropped.

**ViRGo_RK** · 06-12-2006, 03:14 PM

I vaguely remember DC when I went there with my parents... sadly they're tourists, not travellers, so we got to do the touristy things. The cherry blossoms were gorgeous, but I dont think that's this time of year.

**WannaBe_80z** · 06-13-2006, 11:46 AM

Leaving tomorrow, can't wait to get out of here for a little while. It is like I do the same thing everyday here BLEH. Too bad I have a lot of bills piling up so this is probably the only trip type thing I will be doing all summer...

**erova** · 06-13-2006, 11:21 PM

look into adams morgan if you want some cool shops, 101 kinds of different food and nightlife. chinatown is pretty monied now, so adams morgan is more dive-barish (of course you can find some sweet lounges and clubs there too).

sculpture garden has some cool stuff and is never swamped like the the air & space musuem. corcoran gallery and phillips gallery are both around a lot of stuff to do before and after.

cleaveland park also has some cool places to grab a drink and is a little more northwest of everything.

also check out old town alexandria if you're already in the commonwealth. you'll find a ton of stuff going on over there.

gerb--what kind of work you into now? PM me with an update man--been a while...

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