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[Erik88]

My wife and I have been talking about taking a trip to DC. She's never been and I haven't gone since I was a young child. I really want to see the 9/11 museum in NYC too. 

[FUJIMO]

5 minutes ago, Erik88 said:

My wife and I have been talking about taking a trip to DC. She's never been and I haven't gone since I was a young child. I really want to see the 9/11 museum in NYC too. 

I know you guys like to get outdoors too. We timed one trip around hikes along the Blue Ridge Pkwy for the trip back. Lynchburg is a particularly nice area.

[gregintenn]

1 hour ago, Garufa said:

Not sure what you just said, but go!  It’s a PITA driving up there but the museums and history are well worth it...and free.

I’m not a fan of crowds. I hear it’s crowded.

[Garufa]

10 minutes ago, gregintenn said:

I’m not a fan of crowds. I hear it’s crowded.

Everywhere is crowded now but you have as much a right to see it all as they do.

PITA sometimes, but most folks are at least mostly considerate in museums but I haven’t been there since the rise of cell phones.  

Oh, and if you go, expect a massive culture shock.  

[Raoul]

1 hour ago, FUJIMO said:

The war memorials alone are worth fighting the traffic to get there. I just treat i66 like I do 40 81 etc around here. We usually stay close to the capital and walk to most attractions 

We always used the metro. 

[ReeferMac]

@Erik88 Skip NYC. The 'romantic' impression that filthy ####hole has cultivated in film and television is 1000x better than the real thing. The food is the only good reason to go there.

DC is a great town, but I'd avoid it from now until about March, then re-evaluate. The musuems are incredible, but if you go during peak tourist season, you will find it detracts, especially at solemn moments like the war memorials. My time at the Korean War monument was very touching... until 3 busloads of animals from some Philly school district unloaded.

That corner of the country occupying NETN, SWVA. and NWNC has got to be some of the most beautiful land in the country. From Greeneville to Elizabethton is some of the prettiest cow pastures I've ever seen... the hills outside Bristol (they're not big enough to be mountains) are the epitome of "Rolling green farmland" (and home to 2 swanky golf clubs and quite a few celebrity homes dontchaknow?)... but I've caught more than a few sunrises on that stretch of Rt. 81, and just about anywhere from Rt 66 on down will give you a breathtaking photograph. Its understandable why the early settlers from Europe congregated in the Shanendoah...

Ditto the Blue Ridge Parkway.

If I was retired and independently wealthy I'd like to take Lee Highway up and down that stretch (Rt. 11?) Detoured on it through Richmond a couple times due to weather/traffic. I could make that drive last 3 days if time and money were no object!