Tea partiers preparing to pour into DC for Glenn Beck's March on the capitol Saturday needn't worry about where to eat or how to get around -- thanks to a
tea party leader in Maine, they have all the info they'll need about how to operate in the nation's capital.
Good to know.
Majors doesn't specify whether visiting DC is any scarier than being a tea party leader in Maine -- a job where
being confronted by angry, threatening mobs seems to be the general order of things. He does say, however, that there are places tea party visitors to the city just shouldn't go:
Many parts of DC are safe beyond the areas I will list here, but why chance it if you don't know where you are?If you are on the subway stay on the Red line between Union Station and Shady Grove, Maryland. If you are on the Blue or Orange line do not go past Eastern Market (Capitol Hill) toward the Potomac Avenue stop and beyond; stay in NW DC and points in Virginia. Do not use the Green line or the Yellow line. These rules are even more important at night. There is of course nothing wrong with many other areas; but you don't know where you are, so you should not explore them.
Don't feel like traveling underground? It's best to stay out of the city entirely, lest you run into undesirables:
If on foot or in a cab or bus, stay in Bethesda, Arlington (preferably north Arlington), Crystal City, Falls Church, Annandale, or Alexandria, or in DC only in northwest DC west (i.e. larger street numbers) of 14th or 16th streets, or if on Capitol Hill only in SE Capitol Hill (zip 20003) between 1st and 8th Streets, not farther out than 8th (e.g. 9th, 10th etc). (Or stay on the Mall and at the various monuments.) Again there are many other lovely places, from the Catholic University of America to Silver Spring, Maryland. But you don't know where you are so you cannot go, especially at night, unless you take me with you.
As the
AtlanticWire pointed out, one DC blogger discovered that, when plugged into Google Maps, Majors' tour guide for D.C. leaves visiting tea partiers with few places to go when they have downtime:
Back in Maine, visitors to Majors' post at the tea party site have praised him for offering his travel tips.
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