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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 4197522" data-attributes="member: 5868">@ HeavenShallBurn: LOL.  Sounds like my experiences in NYC.Jurgen -- Enjoying the blog.  It's interesting to get a freswh perspective on things we're already familiar with.  By all means try to check out different regions if you can, as the culture and feel of different states in different parts of the country are still distinct, despite the homogenizing brought about by mass franchising.As to your vacation ... as someone who has lived/lives close to both NYC and DC (currently I'm about an hour's drive west of NYC), they are both an experience and quite different.  I prefer DC myself -- more open, more friendly, more historical, and cheaper, plus there are lots of nearby opportunities in Virginia and Maryland.  The Smithsonian Air & Space Museum is my favorite site in the city.  But you can't go wrong either way, as both have a wide variety of entertainment, cultural, and historical sites as well as decent public transportation (decent by US standards, that is).  If you really wanted to you could do both as DC is only about a 3-hour train ride from NYC, so a visit to the major government sites on the Mall is within a day trip.  But with a week to spend you're probably best off staying in one spot.</blockquote>