Yes but metro will not be running at that time. I do not think they start running until like 5am. Please verify! You may be better off taking a cab or Uber to the airport.
Then I would take metro and would not think twice about it. It is very easy and not too much $$. Fare card machines are right at the entrance to the station, and they even have handy little signs to tell you what the fare is to your destination stop.
Purchase fare, head up the escalator, and wait for yellow train. They announce the color, plus they have little colored signs at the lead car. Just make sure you go the right direction!
Reagan is quite a small airport, and they have signs everywhere. You will not have any trouble at all.
If you do not have too much stuff to lug around, and if your hotel is not too far from the metro, then metro is fine. As long as you are arriving at Terminal B or C, the metro stop at Reagan is literally right there -- I pass metro on my way to the parking garages! And many, many people take metro to/from the airport.
If I only had a backpack and single roller bag, I myself would take the metro.
If you have a ton of luggage, just cab it. There are large numbers of cabs at the airport, and the cab station is right outside baggage claim. They do give Uber a hard time there; I think there is a special area for them and it might be easier to just cab it.
Likewise, if you are arriving at Terminal A, you might want to cab it, too. I however enjoy the walk from Metro to Terminal A. You can walk through the original part of the airport, and hardly anybody ever takes that walk so you have the place largely to yourself except for staff.
My office is near a pretty good-sized metro. I will park in my office lot as I do every work day. I will walk to the metro and ride it in, like thousands and thousands of other commuters and tourists.
I will be prepared to walk out, however, at least to Rosslyn or Pentagon City.
Especially when it was Danish scientists who published what is, to my knowledge, the only true scientific study on whether masks help against Covid.
Results were, at best, "inconclusive."
I personally avoid any Green Line stops past Waterfront or Fort Totten. Green Line closes earlier than other lines anyways (gee I wonder why). Orange, Blue or Silver, just avoid anything past Eastern Market.
Literally everything else is good to go. With the exception of the Silver Line, at one point or another, I have used every Metro station on every line (with the exceptions mentioned above) except Glenmont and Rhode Island Avenue on the Red Line. They are all fine. DC gets zillions of tourists all year around, and they all use Metro.
Protip: if you are not climbing the stairs on the escalators, stand to the right. Not doing so immediately marks you as a tourist. And for the love of God don't stop right at the top of the escalator.
Also, if you have a moment, visit the Wheaton station on the Red Line and behold the might of the longest escalator in the Western hemisphere. As you approach the top, turn and look back down. It is dizzying. But don't stop right at the top! :-)
Enjoy your visit, pede, you will not have any problems. Rule of Thumb: avoid NE or SE DC and PG County. Some may get offended at that statement; too bad.
Thanks for sharing that! I can only imagine how proud your parents must be. Somebody once said, the greatest gift my parents gave me was trying to raise me right and providing me with a good life. In return, I could offer them a humble gift in accepting what they tried to give me.
Or to put it somewhat more lightly, here is Mark Twain:
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
I have heard variations of that saying all my life. And I am here to tell you, I have been hard to the right since I was a teenager. Never varied.
So I guess that makes me a reasonably intelligent but heartless bastard haha.
I wonder if DC-area pedes should make a consolidated post about the area -- where to stay, transportation, how safe is the area, which areas are more expensive, area amenities, convenience to airports or interstates, and so on.
I would be happy to contribute -- I can offer advice on several areas in NoVA for example.
Thanks for your offer of help btw!
NoVA pede here -- while getting in might be okay, getting out will likely be very difficult. It happens every time there is an event. Even July 4th fireworks. People trickle in throughout the day, but leave all at once en masse. Roads are total parking lots. Metros become totally jammed.
My advice is to take metro in, but be prepared to walk out. That is what I will be doing. However you may wish to think carefully about simply hanging around until crowds thin out. This may be when Antifa tries to attack stragglers or small groups. Stay in large groups and walk out.
I am not familiar with Maryland, but I can offer some advice for northern Virginia. All metros outbound will be jammed all the way out until the last stops on their respective lines. If you are leaving from the general Freedom Plaza area, Arlington Cemetery is your closest VA stop, but everybody will go there. It will also likely close earlier than other stops.
So what are some alternatives?
Rosslyn via Georgetown / Key Bridge -- about one hour walking Leave Freedom Plaza and walk in the direction of George Washington University. Foggy Bottom metro will likely be jammed. Consider walking past it, through Georgetown and across the Key Bridge into Rosslyn. The station there will be jammed also but it is a big station that handles two lines (Orange and Blue). You are also far more likely to find cabs in the Rosslyn area, especially if you keep walking along Wilson Blvd or Clarendon Blvd. There are also several hotels in that area. If you are staying there, just walk back to your hotel.
Pentagon via Arlington Memorial Bridge -- about 1 hour 15 minutes walking Leave Freedom Plaza and walk out past the White House, National Mall, and Lincoln Memorial. Cross Memorial Bridge and walk down Washington Blvd until you reach the Pentagon parking lot. Pentagon Metro is big and there is also a big bus exchange there. However, you cannot park in the Pentagon lot. Cabs will likely be scarce right there. CAUTION: there is always heavy vehicular traffic on this route. Use extreme caution when crossing streets, especially the GW Parkway. Area drivers are real assholes.
Pentagon City / Crystal City -- about 1.5 hours walking If you have made it to the Pentagon, you may as well walk just a few minutes further to Pentagon City. Or, just a little ways past that until you reach Crystal City. In both of those areas are plenty of hotels, restaurants, places to rest and so on. Also, many people live there and there is always lots of people walking around, so safety should not be a major concern.
Reagan National Airport -- about two hours walking If you are feeling brave and can handle the walk, consider walking out along 395 into Virginia. Follow the GW Parkway to Reagan airport. There are always many cabs in that area. However, there is heavy vehicular traffic in close proximity to the walkways and it is not a very pleasant walk. It is doable -- I have done it a few times myself -- but it is not very nice.
Anyways, once you have hiked out to these stations, you can board the metro train out to wherever it is you are going. Cars will still be packed, but the stations themselves will be less crowded. You also stand a much greater chance of getitng cabs or Ubers if you are already in Virginia. Especially if you do not mind waiting a bit. Relax and get some dinner or grab a beer. Do not worry about roving packs of Antifa; I have never heard of them being a problem in Virginia, even in deep blue Arlington County.
Well I may be conflating two different things -- the Navy does (or used to) sink old ships by using them for target practice. But the "Great Carrier Reef" was the result of a carefully planned activity and probably used demo charges. It is still fun to think about shiploads full of commies being used for target practice though.
Read more here.
Yes, you did. As long as we don't waste the cruise ships! :-)
The Navy will sometimes sink decommissioned ships to make artificial coral reefs. Why use a cruise ship -- you would have to fumigate and sterilize it once you removed all the commies. Just pack them into a rusting hulk.
The navy gets some target practice, the environment gets a new reef, and we get less commies. Why, that's a win-win-win! A trifecta of winning! A veritable cornucopia of winning.
Don't forget your Sikorsky pedes in Florida! :-)
Even more lucky, then! Hang in there, pede, and keep up the good work!
Nice! Lucky you!
So... got any openings there? ;-)
That's right. They've had a month and a half to destroy evidence and falsify records. Start with a clean slate.
No, other people get work done also. Some more than others. For that matter, I myself could be doing some work right now instead of posting here, but I do my job.
I am the "IT guy" though, and I guess they feel it is easier to keep me than replace me.
But I will never understand the subterfuge. Not that I am interested in their political opinions -- they all think the same things anyways -- but if I ever want their opinions on anything else, I just ask them. I would never bother with constructing an elaborate false conversation, the only purpose of which is to slowly ease in to whatever it is I really want to discuss.
What a waste of everybody's time. And they all do it!
He kneels before his god, just as they do.
Who needs fakebook when you can just tell it to their faces, directly. It is rather comical in my workplace, where I am the sole conservative. Everybody there knows it, because I tell them.
You would laugh to see the liberals sidle into my office under false pretenses, ostensibly asking me about the latest IT project when in fact they want to hear for themselves what an actual real-life conservative might say. I am probably the only one they have ever spoken to. Not that they would ever actually listen, but who cares. I do not understand the subterfuge -- if you want to hear what I think, just ask straight up and I will tell you.
Liberals just gonna liberal, I guess. Nothing about these people is genuine or true.
Darrell Owens is correct. It is selling your body -- your time, your sweat, your skill, your brainpower.
It is just that some of us can command a higher price.
If you do not want to work in the warehouse, get a better job. Don't have the skills to move ahead? Acquire them. You are your product, and you are the best salesperson for it. Stop waiting for somebody else to overpay for your product, Darrell Owens.
Be trained or be chained, my brothers and sisters!
And then everybody clapped. Literally, in this case! Wow.
First chortle of the day! Thanks fren!
You are welcome! But a departing flight at 4am? Ugh!
On a lighter note, traffic will be non-existent and the airport will be a ghost town. Because everything will be closed haha!