Our room in Arlington, Virginia. It's not nearly as large as it was made out to be. It's just a basic room, really.
I don't recognize the view. Where are you staying? And I'm shocked at the lack of traffic. That looks like 3AM Sunday. I keep threatening to take a week and spend it up there seeing the sites and hitting my favorite restaurants.
The hotel is near the courthouse in Arlington. It's on Courthouse Road. In fact, the sheriff's department uses the hotel's parking lot for a lot of its police vehicles. We were here last year too, and a quarter of the parking lot was filled with police vehicles. I thought may there had been a mass murder or something, but we were told that the sheriff's department parks some of their vehicles in the lot. There is a Clarendon nearby, and the Ragtime restaurant is within walking distance. The food was good, although it was pretty loud in there on a Friday night. The traffic from our room has been light since we've been here.
I know what that area used to look like. I have no idea what the current configuration is. We moved to Fairfax County in '63 when my dad got transferred to the Murphy store in the old business district in Clarendon. I worked in Rosslyn in the 70s for 5 years or so. There is (was?) a comedy club right across the street from the courthouse. The area was fun to kick around back in the day. You got a Metro stop right there, I believe ("Courthouse Station" or "Courthouse Square") probably just one stop to the cemetery and two stops to get into DC.
Tomorrow morning, we'll be headed back. There will be a hotel stop in Boston, and possibly another one in Maine. While my preference, once we get to Maine, is to drive the rest of the way home, Michelle usually insists on a hotel after dark. By then, we will have usually earned a free night so it's hard to argue.
Washington DC Union Station Boston, from our hotel room Tomorrow morning, we Uber to Boston North Station, where we catch the Amtrak to Portland, Maine, picking up our car. From there, it all depends on whether my wife insists on a hotel room or if we drive straight home from there. I'm guessing she'll opt for another hotel.
Tomorrow, we'll be headed off to a timeshare, although, this time, we won't be far away. We weren't in a position to make it to our timeshare in Massanutten, Virginia last fall, and we waited too long to rent it out. Rather than lose it, we decided to use RCI to take our week at a nearby timeshare, so it will be more of the same as what we're already living in, but in a different place. It's only a few hours away from where we live. In the summer, I'd take the shorter route but that is a more difficult route in the winter. Actually, if I were alone, I'd probably take the shorter route anyhow, but any guy who's married probably knows how that goes. Mapquest acknowledges that the longer route is quicker, for just those reasons, but it's not as pretty of a drive. Either way, it's all rural driving but the short route is basically a logging road. This won't change anything as far as the forum goes because we will have Internet access. I won't even be canceling the recovery meeting that I facilitate Monday night, since we'll just be meeting via Zoom.