Easy young man. what is now Tysons II used to be one of the biggest places to ride dirt bikes around. I used to ride the back country roads connecting Mt Vernon to Springfield (Backlick was two lane and had start finish lines rattle can painted 1/4 mile apart That took us up into Fairfax and then over to Tysons Corner on many winding two lane roads that were no problem for our 50cc and 100cc bikes Rode around the Tysons "Pits" all day and then home. So damn....I am the old one my friend BTW the bike I rode then was a 66 Yamaha YL1 two cylinder 100cc two stroke. Several years ago I found a nice one on eBay and bought it. I'm 66 now and Riding that bike brings back pretty vivid memories of those days at 16
My ki My kids went to elementary school at Banneker in a tiny town near Middleburg (named St Louis oddly enough) Average class size was 10-14 kids.
Grady, what type of contractor work? I was thinking of coming in cold, finding something fast that you can flip fast if you decide this hell hole is not for them.
Home Improvements If I knew of something like you describe I would buy it and flip it That said I would be happy to help Rule of thumb is the further out west you go the happier you will be. Unless you have to commute in to the Beltway area Of the two house I rent out.... If I had to pick one to live in I would pick my Winchester house over my N. Arlington house in a heartbeat Look around far western Loudoun or East side of Clarke Counties Berryville still feels like a small town should.
How different is the Beltway region? Huge. I remember the Beltway when sections of it near Alexandria were two lanes per side! Sorry for the duplicate pic. I rode one of these 100cc bikes two up on the Beltway frequently and one up every day to my Summer Lifeguard job in Oxon Hill. Got it up over 80mph coming down the hill from Maryland towards the Wilson Bridge. Seized when I got to the bridge. I pushed it across the bridge unharmed (!!) Motor was stuck but I kicked it through. Couple more kicks and it started. "Cool it is OK" sez me aloud. Ignorance is bliss as I never even took the head or cylinders off to check. Rode it another year after tht with no problems. And yes back on the Beltway. I don't like driving my F250 on the Beltway an more. Hard to imagine a little two stroke screaming along at 50mph two up (my sister needed to get around too so I was her Uber ride. FWIW I ride this one on the beautiful back roads between Bluemont, Purcellville and Middleburg with no fear whatsoever.
I remember not too long after I learned how to ride I came to a full stop in rush hour on the beltway. It is a completely bizarre feeling the first time you put your feet down on the pavement in 4 to 5 lanes of interstate traffic. The beltway isn't so bad on a bike if you stick to the HOT lanes in Virginia. No tolls for bikes!
i remember when i was little, coming from downtown Silver Spring out to my grandma's house in Montgomery Village seemed like i was driving into the middle of nowhere (which i guess it was, of sorts) in the 80's. i remember you had to cross a one lane bridge near her house and yield to/wave traffic thru and wait for the other guy to pass. and i'm like half your guys age haha. now almost all the way up to Frederick its just one suburban sprawl after another. where the ICC is cuts thru the woods behind my mom's house and one of my best friend's neighborhoods. there were paths all thru those woods, we used to play hide and seek and i could walk over to his house that way. nothing stays the same i guess. we rode bicycles down the ICC once when it was all done but still closed. was like a scene out of an end-of-times action movie.
I was there today and you'd have thought I was the second coming of Jesus, the savior of yards and hedges, to the peeps out there. All hail me!
Lol Knome or short Santa? We are easily fooled out here in the sticks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Point taken Though as you know Winchester would change him Tough also point taken : why bother? He could just stay in the Land of negatively that he describes or.... Well he visited he should know what awaits in Winchester My apologies if this has a negative tone but I went out to Winchester tonight for a few things If it is not your kind of place look elsewhere And by all means get back to me if you find something better