But I've heard that it takes almost 2hrs and quite some bucks to take public transport from DC to there. If you're interested, we could simply take a taxi. It takes about $74 one way though. If we could get a group of at least 3, it would be quite reasonable to take the taxi. Or if you dont like taxis, I dont have a problem with public transport ;)
I need to be back here by 17:00 (5pm) though, to start my trek back to NYC/JFK and then home. So we could take a taxi back as well.
I'm in HIDC room 505 if anyone is interested in grouping up for this. :)
> From: michael.peel@wikimedia.org.uk
> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:09:18 -0400
> To: wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Air & Space Museum)
>
> I'm probably going to be going to Udvar-Hazy around midday on Sunday (after the comcom meeting on Sunday morning, before I fly out fairly early on Monday), returning to Washington when it closes at ~6.30pm. If anyone else is interested in going at these times, let me know.
>
> It looks like the easiest way to get there via public transport is the Metrobus to Dulles (http://www.wmata.com/bus/ - 5A, from L'enfant Plaza to Dulles), and then there's a Loudon bus from Dulles to the Air and Space museum (route 83, http://www.vatransit.org/) - and back the same way.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> On 14 Jul 2012, at 15:28, Manuel Schneider wrote:
>
> > Am 2012-07-14 14:11, schrieb Andy Mabbett:
> >> Id planned to do that on my way to the airport on Monday, but it seems
> >> that they dont have a facility to leave luggage.
> >
> > there are at least two other people who want to go to the Air & Space Museum near the airport and I also have a flight on Monday evening and want to take my stuff to the airport, leave it somewhere there, see the museum, come back in the afternoon and check the luggage in.
> >
> > /Manuel
> >
> >> On Jul 14, 2012 7:48 AM, "Lori Phillips" <lori.byrd.phillips@gmail.com
> >> [10]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Local tip: You should definitely consider tagging along together
> >>> with Rehman and going to the Udvar-Hazy.
> >>>
> >>> Its worth the trip out to Dulles, and perhaps may be something worth
> >>> considering on the morning that you may leave for your flight, if
> >>> your schedule allows. (The museum is located on the grounds of
> >>> Dulles airport, but you do not have to drive into the main airport
> >>> parking, etc., to get there, the entrance is elsewhere.)
> >
> >>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Rehman Wikimedia
> >>> <rehman.wikimedia@live.com [5]> wrote:
> >
> >>>> I plan on visiting there hopefully on the 15th before I leave back
> >>>> to Colombo. Its basically the bigger part of the Air & Space
> >>>> Museum which most of us know in DC, and houses the Space Shuttle
> >>>> Discovery (YEAH!), SR71 Blackbird, Gemini 7, the B29 that dropped
> >>>> the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a Concorde, and tons more.
> >
> > --
> > Manuel Schneider
> >
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