Yeah our friends that want to go say it's way better than what's around here. I've only been to liberty and massanothin'. Also made me realize I've never been to a good resort with long runs.
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Yeah our friends that want to go say it's way better than what's around here. I've only been to liberty and massanothin'. Also made me realize I've never been to a good resort with long runs.
I've hit every ski area around here, and then I made the mistake of going to Colorado. Turns out skiing is a lot easier on snow. LOL
And also a lot more fun when you are actually skiing and not riding lifts constantly.
My inlaws have a house in Rehoboth Beach so we go up there even in winter. It was a lot more fun before COVID of course, but there's a ton of good restaurants. We get take out or eat outside in the cold and pretend we're at a ski resort.
National Harbor here! I've been here for 7+ years, moved from Hampton Roads. My wife loves it there and I love it here so we're at a fork in the road. I'll never live in Richmond and neither will she, so we're just chilling for the moment. LOL
Don't get me started. Nearest Waffle House is in Dumfries? UGH. And then CookOut is 25+ miles from there? UGH UGH.
Trying to decide on what to eat tonight; in the mood to try something different, but I'm not driving into the city. Too cold for all of that. LOL
Don't get me started. Nearest Waffle House is in Dumfries? UGH. And then CookOut is 25+ miles from there? UGH UGH.
Trying to decide on what to eat tonight; in the mood to try something different, but I'm not driving into the city. Too cold for all of that. LOL
i'll take a look. I do ride falls road sometimes but never the whole way https://www.autoblog.com/2015/11/11/top-10-scenic-drives-in-maryland/
I am both happy for you and jealous of you! Glad you enjoyed it/I miss Wooboi!
I was super disappointed by Wooboi. I don't know what I expected but I didn't expect the spiciness to be a dry chili powder.
From Baltimore if you take Falls Rd up to Alesia/Lineboro area, then take Traceys Mill Rd to go west, right on 30, left on E Deep Run Rd. If you follow all the way to Old Hanover, you'll be right next to 97. If you head south, then left on 496 (Bachmans Valley Rd), you can take that a ways and turn left on Saw Mill Rd E, which turns into Rinehart Rd. This will then, surprise, come back to Deep Run Rd E. So you have yourself a loop. You can fairly easily get back to Falls Rd, Westminster (if you know your way out/around there... I do not), or even drop all the way down from 97 onto 70.
Those roads are some of my favorite on a bike. I saw the only Ducati Desmosedici I've ever seen in the region. Falls Rd, by its location, will sometimes have exotics on it. I can tell of some others leading back toward Frederick county, but not sure if you're interested.
Edit: not sure I'd call them Top Gear roads. If you make the drive to Berkeley Springs, WV, and go down route 9 to the "fork" and back up, that's semi Top Gear-like!
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Yeah, it's 49 degrees where I am with a flash flood warning. yay
If it was cold enough we'd have a mothafuckin' blizzard on our hands.
I have some too now. I can't believe it hit 60 yesterday and today is cold as fuck.
MD's notorious humidity makes it feel like mid-40s where I'm at. Didn't even have to wrap up on my 7-11 run, just threw on an old hoodie.
Well what do you know, an actual white Christmas!
Just wish the flakes were bigger (and were actually sticking)
Just wish the flakes were bigger (and were actually sticking)
It's probably far for you but around Harper's Ferry there are some amazing backroads to drive. Western Maryland has the best drivers roads in the state.
Shoutout to the fake mall set in Fairfax County that is the setting for an action sequence at the beginning of Wonder Woman: 1984.
The water literally won't drain from my patio and the sump pump keeps on rattling every few hours.
I thought they used Landmark Mall in Alexandria to shoot those scenes.
The name of the mall in the movie is "Southfields Mall"; I guess (what I meant by) fake as in there is no "Southfields Mall" in Fairfax County, Virginia.
But you're right, they did use Landmark Mall to film those scenes.
Mhm. Just took a nice walk through the park. Not a soul. It was snowing this morning here while I was cooking and baking.
I love scootin' around Arlington but damn when it's cold you REALLY feel that shit. Need to start remembering to wear gloves.
So I may be accepting a job in Rockville over the next couple days and would need to move to the area. Anyone in Rockville who could suggest what would be good neighborhoods to look for apartments? I would ideally be looking for rent around 2k a month (based on what I have seen from my brief searches).
I grew up in Rockville, but it's changed so much I don't know much anymore. The White Flint area has been crazy with development, and downtown Rockville, near the court house, has nice apartments now and shops/restaurants. Both have easy access to Metro.
Hopefully someone else lives there currently and can give more insight.
In general, that part of Montgomery County is super well to do and anywhere you stay is going to be pretty nice and fairly safe. Especially since you're going in comfortable with the high rent. There's lots of grocery stores (Wegmans apparently coming soon), good variety of restaurants, and a Microcenter!
If you have kids the schools are like top in the country (though I guess that adds competitiveness/anxiety for the kids to take on)
If anything the only downside I'd complain about living there out of college was the general older population being somewhat suburban and high cost of living. It's great now though. And you can always take the Red line to Dupont or Addams Morgan if nightlife is still your thing.
Long term it may also get overpopulated as they keep developing more and more, but no need to worry about it now. Amazon East had here as a potential spot but that's definitely not happening thank god.
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Thanks for info. I am from Buffalo so I will not lie I looked into what the Wegmans status was as one of my first bits of research, haha.
Haha, well regardless there's one 15-20 mins north of Rockville in Germantown. Though live down here long enough and that'll seem like a "long drive".
I live in Germantown. -_-
We're a glorified truck stop with a massive population and nearly every restaurant is a chain - and not the good ones. And you know what every town center needs in the middle of it? A Mercedes Benz dealership. They redid the town center and instead of making it all shops, apts, and restaurants like Rockville and Crown Farm have been doing, they plunked a car dealer right in the middle.
They also decided that building a massive eyesore called Top Golf was just what our already fugly suburban hellscape needed. Now the ugliness towers over the area which I guess completes the look they were going for.
If you can't tell, I hate it here and I live in the nice part over by the soccer park.
COVID has made the drive to Rockville way easier though...
Can you name any particular ones? I like Harpers Ferry Rd (Maryland side) that comes out by the C&O Canal. Backroads around there can also be a good way to get to Shepherdstown, WV (a liberal hippy college town in...West Virginia).
That Top Golf netting thing has been up for some small eternity I feel like. I had no idea what it was for. When I was told a Top Golf opened in Germantown, my response was, "Where???"
I have to say it doesn't feel like there's much of a "town"/shop feel to me between here (Frederick) and Bethesda. Did I miss somewhere in-between? I've heard the phrase "downtown Gaithersburg" before, but image searching that pulls up results that look like a shopping center/mall.
The newest part of Gaithersburg is an area called Crown Farm. It's pretty upscale, lots of shops, restaurants and housing. They are still building sections of it. The actual town center of Gburg is not great.
Urbana is super built up now too and that's between Frederick and Germantown.
Pumpernickel and Rye in Urbana is apparently good (for what it is). If you haven't checked it out, I'd recommend Monocacy Crossing.
I eat at Monocacy Crossing every week. LOL
We sit outside in the cold - we really pressed them to get outdoor heaters which they eventually did.
I'm so glad I'll be out of town. I wonder how many will actually show up.