August 26, 200816 yr Chicken Tortellini at a place ColDay recommended in Dupont Circle. It was great. Look at it still sizzling in the pic! About 12x better than the tortellini I had in Chelsea a few days earlier. That place was terrible. The house wine I ordered was Carlo Rossi for God's sake LOL (I saw them pour it in the back). Sorry for the rant.
August 26, 200816 yr I think so, since it's close to Dupont Circle but we didn't walk around the business district or anything. I wouldn't mind living in Adams Morgan. I agree with you on commuter rail done right. I couldn't believe all of the transit-oriented development, either.
August 26, 200816 yr The DC metro is a fantastic example of how to implement rail in the face of incredible sprawl, to put it mildly. Our tax dollars at work in grand style. Lots of cool little neighborhoods in close to the city, too. Also very, very scary ones. I haven't been there since the 90s. Maybe it's cleaned up a little. Either way, you're looking at some serious rent to live in the nice areas. Unless, of course, you have the Norm Coleman $600 Utilities Incl special.
August 26, 200816 yr Yeah, I definitely got that feeling simply by knowing how the dynamic works in other cities. Gays, international people, stellar, clean architecture from the late 1800s-early 1900s *cough San Francisco cough*, top tier transit system, educated population, young people, and well-kept landscaping = high @ss rent. What really surprised me was Alexandria, VA. I've never seen so many antique stores (small town vibe) next to night clubs and trendy restaurants.
August 26, 200816 yr ^Alexandria is a cool spot, I just hope that the new National Harbor project across the River in PG county, MD doesn't hurt its business. I love some of the more off the beaten path neighborhoods in DC like Woodley Park, Tenleytown, Friendship Hts., Shaw, etc. as well as some of the inner burbs like Bethesda, Chevy Chase, and Alexandria. Outside of the district and some of the inner ring burbs, DC has some of the worst sprawl in the country.
August 26, 200816 yr Fantastic shots! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 27, 200816 yr ^^Is the Torpedo Factory still kicking? I haven't been there in almost 20 years. Holy crap: I'm old.
August 27, 200816 yr nice job. you were on a roll hittin the coast cities. Chicken Tortellini at a place ColDay recommended in Dupont Circle. It was great. Look at it still sizzling in the pic! About 12x better than the tortellini I had in Chelsea a few days earlier. That place was terrible. The house wine I ordered was Carlo Rossi for God's sake LOL (I saw them pour it in the back). Sorry for the rant. you ate italian food in chelsea? where was that? wait a sec...you were in chelsea??? :laugh:
August 27, 200816 yr Seeing photos of the Metro always brings back childhood memories for me. I lived in DC as a kid and my Dad would take me on the Metro to the airport to keep me entertained. Still lookin' good! It still have that double tone before the doors close?
August 27, 200816 yr nice job. you were on a roll hittin the coast cities. Chicken Tortellini at a place ColDay recommended in Dupont Circle. It was great. Look at it still sizzling in the pic! About 12x better than the tortellini I had in Chelsea a few days earlier. That place was terrible. The house wine I ordered was Carlo Rossi for God's sake LOL (I saw them pour it in the back). Sorry for the rant. you ate italian food in chelsea? where was that? wait a sec...you were in chelsea??? :laugh: It wasn't an "italian place", just a diner - so I'm not mad.
August 31, 200816 yr Nice stuff! The DC metro was new, I think, when I first rode it in '76. It was a stunning change from the Chicago CTA subways I was used to; that was in the era when CTA was still running the green cars built from surplus trolleys, with no AC and windows that opened. I remember one escalator going down to the Metro that was so long and steep that my friend freaked out. He rode it with his eyes shut and one hand on the rail and the other clamped firmly onto my shoulder. Typical - he was always much with the macho crap, but when push came to shove, he was a big baby!
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