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Well, I'll try this again.
The DFW metroplex cab's have had meters for years. Why did it take DC that long to change?
Ann Rule wrote "The End Of A Dream" about Scott Spurlock that was from Reston Va., and that it was to of been a planned progressive free thinking community. His father a pastor and his mother we're very open to drugs and sex, and lived a life of nudity and brought the kids up around nudist. He was known as the Hollywood Bandit when he robbed several banks in Seattle in the nineties. I thought of him when one of the Boston bombers hid in a camper and was shot. Scott did holed up in a camper in a backyard after a dye pack exploded after a robbery and the police tracked him to it, and the police unloaded upon it. It's a good read. Where is Reston in relation to north south east and west of DC?
We did rent a suv for our 2006 trip to visit friends up in Baltimore and down in Richmond. DH has no trouble driving in traffic and tends to end up in undesirable sections of cities. Of course this is the man that drove my brand new valentine into Mexico legally, and drove back on a railroad trestle/bridge into the US illegally.
Dallas Area Rapid Transit hadn't reached us yet at that time, so the metro pricing from the machine was confusing. The young people were rude. Throwing themselves into seats and never standing up for the elderly, infirmed or pregnant women. Other than that it was on time. The hardest part was getting off the metro after a long day of walking and the escalator at Pentagon City was out, and you had to climb the steps up to street level to catch the hotel shuttle.
I know what you mean about living in a place all your life and never seeing the sights. I've never been to the JFK Memorial or the Sixth Floor at the Book Depository. There are some unpleasant memories of that part of my life. My father didn't make easy on us because of his views and actions. He was on the front page news after Adlia Stevenson speech the month before JFK was killed. I had to get off the bus and walk pass my fellow student the next morning. I don't think I raised my head at all in school from that point on. I always finished my work, and would read to take me to other places.
DC was clean, but there were many sidewalk hawkers selling t shirts and geegaw and were quite aggressive. It was a city I always wanted to visit, but again when I did there is a memory of my father being arrested during a march in front of the White house in the sixties.
Kids coming out of college making big bucks. I made $1.60 an hour at my first job. I think I brought home forty bucks a week. Milk and bread were under a dollar. Our first apartment was $165.00 a month, but it was a two bedroom with two full baths, living room, dining room and kitchen with dishwasher.. For some reason dh and I have always had more room than we really needed. We've had people move from up north and they are surprised about how much house/apartment they get down here. How much do you have to make to pay those high prices up there?
We did venture into Old Town Alexandria and had lunch at a place known for the largest cupcake?
Trivia factoid about Gerogetown for those that don't know - The Exorcist was filmed in several placed in Gerogetown. The Key Bridge; Georgetown University; Dahlgren Chapel; the 75 steps at Prospect and 36th streets that lead down to M Street in Georgetown; the house near the top of the steps on Prospect Street; a bridge over the C&O Canal. The cardinal's office in the film is actually the office of the president of Georgetown University. I had a friend that lived in an apartment close by the steps.
