Hatton, you're correct. Huntington is the last stop on the Yellow line and Franconia/Springfield is the last stop on the Blue Line. They both are in Fairfax County.
It sounds like you've got a good location. King St. is the "strip" in Old Town Alexandria (and by that I mean where the restaurants and bars are) you can find everything from fast food to five star dining. Right across the river from Alexandria is National Harbor which has alot of nightlife/restaurants/shops etc you can either cross the river by car (495 over the Woodrow Wilson Bridge) or by water taxi. As far as Metro goes, Avoid rush hour like the plague the trains are crowded and finding a seat is next to impossible. If you're intenerary includes Arlington Cemetary and/or the Pentagon Memorial take the Blue Line, it's the long way to the Smithsonian and the National Mall The only disadvantage to non rush service is that the trains run on a much longer schedule. This site will help immensely (it's also written in ColdFusion) http://www.wmata.com/ Also note that the Pentagon Reservation is a high security area, things can close up at a moments notice. There is no photography allowed outside of the Pentagon Memorial, they are very strict about this. There are pentagon tours available but you have to book in advance . http://www.whs.mil/our-services/visitor-services/pentagon-tours-and-memorial In short while at the Pentagon, do exactly what they nice men with the machine guns tell you to do. More notes: The dinosaur exhibit at the Natural History Museum is closed until 2017, as they are redoing the entire thing, there are occasional small exhibits out, but the collection as a whole is being revamped, cleaned etc. The Udvar - Hazy Center (the Air and Space Museum Annex) is about 25 Miles or so due west of DC at Dulles International Airport, and parking is $15 per car. Things start to ramp up in mid March that's when the tour busses start showing up en masse and the museums start to get crowded. If you're also looking for local music and nightlife I can suggest a few places On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:43 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Scott Stewart <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Ermmm.. if you were at the farthest stop in Virginia you'd be at > > Franconia/Springfield which is right next to a large shopping mall or > > Huntington which is outside of Old Town Alexandria in Fairfax County and > > not the best neighborhood. > > > > We're you perhaps at the King Street Metro? > > > > Doesn't that depend on what line you're looking at? Isn't Huntington the > last stop for Yellow line? > > The place we got is about 5-10 minutes from either Braddock Rd or King St. > Overall I'm impressed with AirBNB too. The property owner has been really > responsive already and it's made setting other plans up much more > comfortable. > > Until Later! > C. Hatton Humphrey > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:373170 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
