Saturday, 16 July 2011

Tourist tips for Jersey, DC and Atlanta?

I'm going on a work trip with an organisation I founded The Geneva Push to the USA. The trip includes Manhattan, New Jersey, Washington DC, Atlanta and Seattle.

I feel pretty confident with New York and Seattle. I've been to both places before and I know what I'd like to return to (Museum of Natural History in NYC for example, Thai Tom in Seattle) and I know what I missed out on (Rockerfeller Centre, Brooklyn in NYC and key coffee and microbrew pilgrimmages in Seattle).

But not so sure about Jersey, DC and Atlanta. Of course the key monuments in DC - and jogging along the water while making a backdoor deal like in West Wing or a Grisham novel.

But places to eat? Cultural icons to be photographed in front of? Places to drink? Suggestions?

2 comments:

Laura said...

For food, Chowhound is a fantastic resource.

Atlanta -- http://chowhound.chow.com/boards/77
D.C. -- http://chowhound.chow.com/boards/14
New Jersey -- http://chowhound.chow.com/boards/81

Will you have a car in any of those places? Obviously some of the cities will be easier to walk in than others -- Atlanta is particularly unwalkable. But if you have a car a whole world of dirty cinderblock BBQ joints opens up before you.

I'll try to FB you info about good coffee spots in ATL and DC.

jml said...

Look at the cars on the New Jersey turnpike.