For touring, the location is perfect. See below for different travel methods: WALKING: Walk to restaurants, shops, the post office, the bank, Target, and CVS drug store -- all just around the corner from the apartment. To explore, walk up and down Wilson Boulevard, Arlington's main thoroughfare. To explore D.C., from the apartment, walk across Key Bridge to D.C.'s trendy Georgetown neighborhood of restaurants, clubs, movies, and nightlife. You can also walk to Theodore Roosevelt Island, an 88.5-acre nature preserve known for its nature trails and boardwalks. METRO: The Rosslyn Metro station services the Blue, Orange, and (new) Silver metro lines. Access Ronald Reagan National airport and the Pentagon with the Blue line. On the Orange line, go one stop for Foggy Bottom, steps from the U.S. State Department, George Washington University, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the World Bank. BUS: A $1 shuttle bus whisks you over the Key Bridge to Georgetown from Rosslyn and then to Dupont Circle, the heart of DC's intellectual life. Walk from here to some of the nation's most prestigious think tanks and research institutions, including the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Center for Strategic and International Studies, the German Marshall Fund, The Eurasia Center, the Peterson Institute and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University. Check their online calendars for regular, free public policy-related events, such as expert panel discussions. The D.C. Circulator bus runs between Dupont Circle, Georgetown and Rosslyn. For just $1, you can hop on the Circulator at the corner of 19th St. N. and N. Moore St. -- about five minutes' from River Place -- and shoot across the Key Bridge into D.C. For the return trip, pick up the bus in Dupont or Georgetown. Buses run every 10 minutes from 7:00 a.m. - midnight Sunday through Thursday and 7:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. on weekends. There are two private long-haul bus companies that run between Rosslyn and New York City. Vamoose Bus provides service several times daily from N Lynn Street in Rosslyn -- about five minutes' walk from River Place -- to Penn Station/Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan. The cost starts at $20.00 each way. Tripper Bus provides daily service from nearby N. Moore Street to the Macy's flagship store on 34th Street in Manhattan, for a similar charge. OTHER: Zipcar (car rental) and Capital Bikeshare (bike rental) stations are within about two minutes' walk. For more info on these, please reach out to me via text or message!