@dasgeh 165777 wrote:
You’ve gotten great advice, I’ll just add:
1) Hopefully you can ride it home today — it’s much easier to find coming from DC, just remember stay right when you come to the fork where the left fork looks shiny and new and the right fork looks old and craggy and overgrown. Then you can see it for yourself.
2) Sorry you had to back track so far. Another option, once you’re in the Pentagon parking lot, is to keep heading east through the parking lot to Connector Road, which you take north. From there turn left on Boundary Channel Drive, and right into the LBJ parking lot then onto the wooden bridge over the water to the actual LBJ memorial grove (betcha didn’t know he had a memorial). From there, stay straight/right at the fork so you head to the parking lot (not the statue of LBJ). Straight through the parking lot and a little jog left then right will put you on a trail under the Humpback Bridge to the Seagull Statue (Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial) which connects to the Mt Vernon Trail. You can head southeast to the 14th St Bridge or northwest to the Memorial Bridge. Here’s the route in google.
3) I’d recommend trying the through-Rosslyn route. You may find it more pleasant. Would definitely love to hear what you think of all the options and where you settle.
4) Totally fine that you posted here, but for these sorts of things, we normally start a new post. We often start new posts. Except when (1) we see a friend (One-Eighth Sighting); (2) something interesting happens in the morning (My Morning Commute); (3) something interesting happens in the evening (My Evening Commute); (4) we see a sale (Saw This Deal, Thought Someone Might Like It); (5) we see/are part of a near miss (Missed Connection); (6) when we take ride pictures (Post your ride pics) [Did I miss anything?]
Thank you for the information. Re: posting, this is very useful.
I’ll let you know how it turns out, happy to have so many options!
