Crooked Beat

[thirsty moore]

From Dupont, walk up 18th St. away from the Washington Monument.

[vansmack]

Sometimes it's worth it to just pay a cab to take you to a place you've never been.  Then you will always know where it's at after that.

[you be betty]

that is NOT a bad idea.

[slowgraffiti]

i always feel like it's faster to walk there from u street station than adams morgan

[cheechako]

When you're walking up 18th street, look for Maggie Moo's, which is kind of hard to miss. It's bright pink with black and white cow walls outside. Crooked Beat is right before it, downstairs.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by you be betty:
  none of those maps help me

WMATA's Trip Planner doesn't help you?  It's one of the best features of the whole Metro system, great piece of software ... that, combined with the Station Masters maps, is about all you need

[ggw]

I am going to forward this thread to the admissions office at Brown.

[you be betty]

Hey.  I'm just, on occasion, "directionally challenged."  I'm used walking Los Angeles streets...everything there is a grid...

[lily1]

dc is a grid too!
 
 numbered streets go north/south, lettered streets go east/west, and roads named after states go diaganol.
 
 

Originally posted by you be betty:
  Hey.  I'm just, on occasion, "directionally challenged."  I'm used walking Los Angeles streets...everything there is a grid...

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by you be betty:
 I'm used walking Los Angeles streets...everything there is a grid...

no offense, but i think DC makes a lot of sense
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_and_highways_of_Washington%2C_D.C.

[chaz]

www.mapquest.com
 
 http://maps.google.com/
 
 http://maps.yahoo.com/
 
 This Internet thing is amazing.  The other day I even heard you could make phone calls over it!

[yinzer]

dc is a grid too!
 
 numbered streets go north/south, lettered streets go east/west, and roads named after states go diaganol.
 
 
 quote:
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 Originally posted by you be betty:
 Hey. I'm just, on occasion, "directionally challenged." I'm used walking Los Angeles streets...everything there is a grid...  

i have heard dc aptly described as a grid with a wagon wheel laid over it (or under it).  
 
 can we start a thread on the biggest fucking pain the ass one way street in town?  i think i found them all while the greatest road in world, rock creek parkway, was closed for one week.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by yinzer:
 i think i found them all while the greatest road in world, rock creek parkway, was closed for one week.

rock creek parkway is just fantastic ... i can go from my house in DC to national airport in 10 minutes while travelling on maybe 100 yds total of non-highway streets ... i don't understand why more people don't use it, and i also don't understand why google maps or mapquest or yahoo maps can't integrate it into their direction systems

[Bombay Chutney]

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
  rock creek parkway is just fantastic ... ... i don't understand why more people don't use it

Because it can be very confusing if you don't already know exactly where you're going.  Once you figure it out - it's great.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by you be betty:
  Hey.  I'm just, on occasion, "directionally challenged."  

It's a gender thing.