My wife and I have recently retired from the Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game. We are planning a bicycle vacation this fall in Washington D.C. and camping at Greenbelt Park. We are mostly interested in visiting the mall and bicycling local paved trails.
We've been getting a lot of scare stories from friends about Washington D.C. being a dangerous place and how we are rising our lives and our bikes by going there. I assume these are the same type of stories people down south hear about Alaska from friends who have no personnel experience and spend too much time watching the TV news.
If any of you have any suggestions about area's to avoid, trails to seek out, or sites not to miss we would like to benefit from local knowledge. Thank you.