Postby draglist » Sun Aug 31, 2014 8:01 pm
Hi folks. Yes, we are all in on the Thursday night moonlight tour. While I am up for doing that on Wednesday night, too (driving myself), there really was no good way for me to accommodate the number of folks on Thursday. And this way, we can all have fun and be together (those who want to come). I am not sure on my timing of getting from the Baltimore Airport to home in time to turn around and head back downtown in time for dinner... Do we want to do the dinner? Or just the tour? We can do something at our house that night, too... (but would have to eat and scoot as we would want to allow a good hour and a half to get downtown just to be sure we were there on time).
Heading to Fredericksburg and up 301 to our house is definitely doable but is CRAZY out of the way. However, I will be brutally frank on DC Beltway traffic. You have never in your life seen the likes. It's very much 'reality NASCAR' and the speed and closeness of the cars will freak you out if you truly are unfamiliar with that level of aggressive driving. The eastern side of the beltway is the way to go, although it's largely the same distance to our exit (7A) as the Western side through Virginia. By the way, the exit numbers on the Maryland side are not strictly numerically consecutive (1, 2, 3, etc). They are shown as 'distance to the Potomac River bridge.' So our exit is 7 miles away from the Potomac. You will drive down MD 270 and get onto the Washington Beltway heading east. Be careful of that transition to the beltway, especially if you are anywhere near rush hour on a weekday. It's insane. bp