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XtremeJ

XtremeJ

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Testing at VIR Aug 19/20 staying trackside
2 days to kill before returning for the race
Wife has nephew in DC and second nephew flying in

I plan to spend a day at air and space museum

Suggestions for 2 days in Virginia DC for wife and family Thursday and Friday. They will be coming to the track Saturday

I was thinking a couple days on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Stay somewhere within a couple hours of the track Friday night. Danville and towns within an hour are a zoo

South Africans - so was thinking natural beauty rather than civil war history or tobacco farm tours or somewhere they have revisionist history shoved down their throats. They already know white man = bad:grinpimp:

The hot tub and rape shack at bgaidan AirBnB
Go to the beach instead?
 
There have been a couple of threads discussing this very thing:

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Help me plan a trip to Dc

Kids have spring break last week of March. Wife wants to take the kids to see the sights at Washington DC. Planning on driving down spending a 4-5 days there then driving back. What should we put on the plan to see, eat, where to stay ect. I haven’t been there in 20+ years so not too...
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irate4x4.com

In Baltimore and DC where to go?

We are going to the aquarium, the Smithsonian and Lincoln monument. Where else?
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I am sure you know, but DC is like a four hour drive (without traffic) to get back to VIR and the Blue Ridge Pkwy is 2 more hours but in the opposite direction. You might burn up your two days just getting back and forth to see something for only a couple hours.
 
My vote is beach. :flipoff2: How fun is the loaner car? The parkway is okay, but the speed limit, deer, and cop traffic kills it to me.

Regardless of gps. Take 29 south. Way nicer scenery, it’s faster, and way less traffic than 95. Also Nellyford area has a ton of winery’s and brewery’s halfway to VIR if you make Friday a leisure day.
 
It's not worth the trip from VIR to DC. You're looking at a 5 hour drive one way without traffic and there's always traffic in Northern VA and DC. You get into Northern VA at the wrong time of day and you can easily lose most of a day sitting in a sea of third world drivers. If you do decide to go, no matter what the GPS tells you do not let it put you on 95, take the western route up 29.

Even at night, 95 and the beltways get backed up for hours now and they're doing major construction at night in 95 in Richmond, definitely do not come back that way. During the day it's a total clusterfuck as it is. At night you'll sit on it maybe getting up to 10 mph on occasion all the way from DC to Richmond. My office is 30 min north of Richmond, takes me 30 min even with shitty traffic during the day. I went up there Friday night for something I forgot thinking it would be a quick trip. Round trip took me over 2.5 hours because even the back ways are fucked up or under major construction and shut down for it.
 
Udvar hazy center in Virginia. Not just the air and space museum in d.c.
 
IMSA Race? What team? (if you're allowed to share).

Beach is also out of the question - further and more annoying to get to than DC from VIR/Danville. I would head West and explore the mountains and vineyards as was suggested. Hanging Rock State Park looks interesting but I don't know anything about it. I like the idea of finding Crispins ;)
 
XtremeJ said:
Testing at VIR Aug 19/20 staying trackside
2 days to kill before returning for the race
Wife has nephew in DC and second nephew flying in

I plan to spend a day at air and space museum

Suggestions for 2 days in Virginia DC for wife and family Thursday and Friday. They will be coming to the track Saturday

I was thinking a couple days on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Stay somewhere within a couple hours of the track Friday night. Danville and towns within an hour are a zoo

South Africans - so was thinking natural beauty rather than civil war history or tobacco farm tours or somewhere they have revisionist history shoved down their throats. They already know white man = bad:grinpimp:

The hot tub and rape shack at bgaidan AirBnB
Go to the beach instead?
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I've posted in the other threads I think about what to do in the DC area, but if you decide beach instead, I'll meet up for a drink.

DC - Air and Space is good. Holocaust is better, but plan on at least half a day there. Walking to see all the monuments can take a half day as well.
 
Elwenil said:
The farther you get from DC, the better is gets.
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Spent a few days there in 97. I remember it being reall6 hot, stank like shit and the drinking water was gross, like drinking pool water.
And people were rude.
 
Walk the national mall, check the air and space museum and natural history museum at the Smithsonian.

Stratford Hall
Mount Vernon

Both are cool tours.
 
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