My family of 3 stayed a week and did a lot of traveling around the city by foot and public transportation, and this was a perfect home base. We walked or biked to the capitol and the national mall directly from Dick's place, often renting inexpensive bikes through the Capitol Bikeshare bike docks - there was one a block west of his house, and another a block east. We also made use of the stocked kitchen so that we didn't have to eat all of our meals out at restaurants. It was great to have more space than we would have had in a hotel room, and the neighborhood is lovely and quiet. Dick was great with communication, friendly and welcoming, and was even so kind as to give us a ride to the train station when we left. We had an excellent stay!