Driving from VA to the Georgetown part of DC is something everyone should do

[Taverner]

Damn that is a beautiful drive - and seeing the university spire as you drive in...man



Just sayin'

Made me almost consider moving to DC

[TZ]

1. well if you do move to DC...

You will have plenty of time to admire the view as you sit and sit and sit and sit in traffic....:D

[Taverner]

2. Yes, I noticed that too

It's as bad as the 101 at rush hour

Or any given bridge out here

[LostinVA]

35. Beat me to it -- no one who's ever done that would say what he said!

[HughBeaumont]

3. I'll . . . just take the Metro, thanks.

The view is a nice one, granted . . .

[ElizabethDC]

16. But there's no metro stop in Georgetown. :( n/t

[HughBeaumont]

38. There's always Foggy Bottom.

Gotta walk a little, but still.

That's the Metro's main flub, IMO. A major epicenter like G-Town ought to have a stop closer than FB or Rosslyn.

I'll be there next week and my boy is going tomorrow to visit his cousin, grandma and aunt. Hope it's sunny.

[StopTheMorans]

4. even quadriplegics and blind people?

:shrug:

[Taverner]

6. Yes! Even single-celled organisms!

[StopTheMorans]

8. I don't think that many blind people or quadriplegics would appreciate

the comparison to single-celled organisms :grr:

[Taverner]

12. Um....I wasn't comparing them

I was broadly defining "everyone" with a non-sequitor. Because post preceding it was a non-sequitor.

But thanks for playing.

[StopTheMorans]

15. sure, the ol' bait and switch to avoid taking responsibility for a comment

straight out of the Trent Lott playbook...

[Taverner]

17. Yeah you were doing a good job of playing Trent Lott there...

[StopTheMorans]

20. I'm rubber and you're glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you

game over. WOOT!

[MrScorpio]

5. I used to walk and ride my bike accross the Key Bridge all the time

With driving against the traffic, I missed a lot of the beauty

[StopTheMorans]

7. And I'm sure that it was nearly impossible to fight off the screaming hordes

of ladies whilst bicycling or walking. Hard to enjoy the beauty when you're being mauled like a Beatle circa 1964, I feel your pain :cry:

[MrScorpio]

9. That's why I loved Georgetown when I was single

Been hit on so many times I lost count

[StopTheMorans]

10. that's why you need a pimpometer. It's like a pedometer, only it counts

pick-up lines. I'm sure that yours would probably overheat though, and, as far as I know, they only come in 4-digit models, so yours would probably be burned out by the 2nd or 3rd hour you'd had it.

[MrScorpio]

11. Before I went to DC, I had a feeling that I would be tied down

I was soooooo right

The legendary 6-1 female to male ratio.

Let's say, any night alone was a personal choice rather than a tragic circumstance.

D.C.: The single man's Heaven on Earth

[Taverner]

14. DC, Houston, NYC - these places are meccas for single guys

California is a cock-fight.

Too many of us guys.

[MrScorpio]

21. I never knew that about Cali

All I ever heard was was that it was full of women.

Since, I'm not partial to beach roaming bleached blondes, I've never been hankering to see if the implications were true.


Always found plenty of female company to my liking here in the East.

[Taverner]

23. LA is actually not bad

Good ratio there.

But the Bay Area, because of the Engineer glut, is very male.

Still, I'd never want to live anywhere else.

The women who are here, however, are drop dead gorgeous.

[MrScorpio]

24. Comfirm something for me

With the high ratio of gay males to straight, does that raise the number of eligible single females? Or is that offset by a significant number of lesbians?


I always wondered about that

[Taverner]

27. Kinda funny about that

SF has a higher gay male population - so at bars and pickup joints, the numbers are in your favor. When you strip out the gay males from the equation, you are left with more eligible females than males. Oakland is more of a Lesbian city, so the reverse works there.

I had a friend in college who hung out at mixed bars (both gay and straight - they were popular around here in the 90's) because the numbers were in his favor.

[MrScorpio]

28. So San Francisco would have been fun if I had went

As an eligible straight male, I think I would been quite a novelty for the ladies

[Taverner]

29. No doubt

And if you find Asian women attractive, well, you'd REALLY like it.

I do, and I did.

[MrScorpio]

30. I bet

I hoped that they would haved liked me as well

[Taverner]

32. What woman doesn't like a dude in uniform?

[MrScorpio]

33. There You go

The AF sent me East instead, twice.... I never complained

So it's all good

[ElizabethDC]

13. Hey, that's my school! Beautiful, ain't it?

Georgetown is lovely - not just the university, but the whole area. I've driven across the Key Bridge many a time, and it still gets to me!

[Taverner]

18. Lucky duck...

If I were to do everything over, I would have gone to Georgetown.

But it's just damn hard to get in if you pull a 0.0 during your Freshman year in HS. Well, if you aren't named Bush.

[kwassa]

19. First you cross Key Bridge

look at the old C&O canal



see old rowhouses

http://andrewprokos.com/d/georgetown-o-street-rowhouses?g2_itemId=4573&g2_serialNumber=5



and other old houses



then hit the shops on M Street

[MrScorpio]

22. My fave place to hang out on M St. is the Saloun

Live jazz, baby

[kwassa]

25. live jazz is hard to find, these days.

I never did hang on M Street, though my wife did in her single days. Some great wine bar.

I did single on the west coast.

[MrScorpio]

26. I guess things have changed

When I lived there 20 years ago, you could find live music all over the place.

I've been to more concerts in DC than anywhere else I've ever lived and that includes Austin

[kwassa]

31. well, Blues Alley is alive and well

and that is a great jazz club in Georgetown.

http://www.bluesalley.com/

There are lots of clubs for live music, but jazz itself is in greater trouble.

[MrScorpio]

34. I saw Flora Purim there once

Loved the place

[kwassa]

36. She is a wonderful singer.

some of Eva Cassidy's best filmed performances were there.

She died way too soon


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQuksPhbUMc

[GoddessOfGuinness]

37. Make sure you drive along the George Washington Parkway to get there...

And stop in overlooks often! I'm surprised there aren't any pics of the views on Google pic...

[bikebloke]

39. I see that out my window.

It's a bit obscured due to vegetation right now, but I have a clear view across the river during the winter months.

Though for my bicycle commute, I cross Memorial Bridge. It's 10 minutes shorter and the same distance.