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David Ing, at large … Sometimes, my mind wanders


2007/10/17 Chinatown to Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC 0

Posted on October 18, 2007 by daviding

If I have a choice of hotel locations when I’m on business travel, I prefer one next to a Chinese “duck hanging in the window” rice-and-noodles joint. The menu is predictable, and these places survive on repeat business. In Washington, DC, one of the corporate negotiated hotels happens to be next to Chinatown, and a key Metrorail station at Gallery Place. I took the subway from the airport. Coming up from the subway platform, it seems as though the station designers took the Chinese neighbourhood theme seriously.

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Chinatown in DC isn’t more than a few blocks long. There’s probably fewer than ten Chinese restaurants there.

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2007/10/09 Adams Morgan, Washington, DC 0

Posted on October 10, 2007 by daviding

Since my territory in the day job is North America, it seems that I’m assigned to a different city every two months. In addition, with corporate-negotiated rates, the chosen hotel is sometimes in unobvious locations. For October, I spent a few days in the Adams Morgan district of Washington, DC. The General George McClelland statue is at the intersection of Connecticut Avenue NW and Columbia Road NW.

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The area has a lot of embassies. Walking north up Connecticut Avenue NW, there’s a bridge spanning a ravine.

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