On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Steve Timko <steveti...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can't think of any place in Maryland that's 15 minutes away from the > mall, especially on inauguration day.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Doug Eastick <east...@mcd.on.ca> wrote: > layers are the trick. Pretend you are going skiing and you will > be fine and prepared. > > personally, I think you are nuts. I got an email from > homeway.com (where you can book condos) and they were advertising > rentals available in DC. My next thought with my wife was "why would > anyone ever *want* to make a vacation of an inauguration?". I'll let > that secret reason stay with you :-) Well, I am no expert on the local geography, though we have been there a few times. My friend told me that he just took the Metro in to the Mall over the Christmas break and it was about a 15 minute ride. The Metro has it listed as a 19 minute ride (they live near Friendship Heights Station). But of course, as I mentioned, we are budgeting many hours to make the ride early Inauguration morning. In fact, one suggestion I have been given it to take the train in the opposite, outbound direction to the end of the line, which would let us get on a relatively empty train back towards DC. Some predictions are that there will be very little room on any train as it gets closer to the DC area. The idea of walking around a city dressed like I am going skiing just sounds absurd to me, but that is what we have been hearing from some people. If I detailed our entire itinerary people would really thing we are nuts (we are actually flying to Manhattan and renting a car to drive back and forth to DC). Part of this is related to taking our daughter back to college for the start of her second semester this year, but most of it has to do with non-rational (irrational I suppose) needs to be physically present at this particular ritual, which are admittedly hard to explain. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
