Maryland and DC pit stop recommendations?

[cvcalhoun]

Rockville

Swag: dog plastic bag dispenser, foldable Frisbee, portable coffee mug, notebook, pen, glasses wipe, map, reflective clip-on, can lid
Food: Chia bars, fortune cookies, Kit's Organic bars, theoretically coffee but it wasn't ready
Raffle: yes, but no idea what it was, as I would have had to stay there to win

[cvcalhoun]

North Bethesda – US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (across from White Flint Metro Station):

Swag: magnetic clip, smartphone cleaner, bell, bike pin, pencil, map
Food: coffee (finally!), donuts, bagels, raisins, smoothies, bananas
Raffles: every 15 minutes (I won a $75 Whole Foods gift card!)
Entertainment: DJ

[creadinger]

Del Ray -
Swag: none that I could see
Food: peanuts, powerade, coffee, and water
Raffles??? Hahahahahaha
Entertainment? You mean more than just meeting new people and friendly early morning conversation?

Suitland -
Basically, same as above.

[KWL]

Del Ray -
Swag: none that I could see
Food: peanuts, powerade, coffee, and water
Raffles??? Hahahahahaha
Entertainment? You mean more than just meeting new people and friendly early morning conversation?

Suitland -
Basically, same as above.

Del Ray - plus water bottles & all of last year's shirts you could carry. ("Please, take all you want") The Happy Tart cookies were warm and good.

[lordofthemark]

Shirlington

Swag - an instant raffle - I got the small prize and took a pair of BikeArlington socks. Large prize included helmets.
Food - Best buns, coffee, muffins, bread and scones. Copperwood tavern lemonade and some kind of candied popcorn
Raffles - see above
Entertainment - dj, guy with a unicycle

Crystal City - Swag - well the jersies of course, for some of us. CCBid giving out blinky lights, ankle straps, etc.
Food - bagels and coffee and bananas.
Raffles- none I saw.
Bike repair from bikes for the world.
Entertainment - well lots of people


Canal Park
Swag - Water bottles, blinky lights, and ankle straps
Food - coffee, muffins, fruit
Raffles - Capitol Riverfront BID doing a raffle for BID swag, not sure what that includes
Bike repair by BicycleSpace
Entertainment - posing for the department BTWD picture (technically not in Canal Park, at the front steps on NJ Avenue instead)


Oh and I think both CC and CP had granola bars.

[PotomacCyclist]

Crystal City had the Potbelly table too. They had a spinning wheel with different prizes. I won a free sandwich. The coupon expires on Dec. 31. They also handed out coupons for a free soda (no thanks) or a cookie with the purchase of an entree. This coupon is only good for today, which is another one of those pattern date: 5/15/15. (At 5:15 am, it was 5/15/15 5:15 am. At 1:15 pm, it will be 5/15/15 1:15 pm.)

[cvcalhoun]

Bethesda:

Swag: towels, reflective ankle straps
Food: apples, bagels, bread
Service: Griffin Cycle was providing air, lube, and basic tools
Raffles: many at a time, every 15 minutes. However, there were so many people there that chances of winning were probably less than at less populated stops
Entertainment: recorded music

[cvcalhoun]

Friendship Heights

Food: apples, bananas, potato chips, fortune cookies, granola bars
Swag: portable coffee mugs
Raffles: theoretically closed at 8:30, but was still having raffles at 8:40. While they had only 2 at a time, there were so few people that chances of winning were high. (I won 3 lbs. of coffee.)
Services: learn how to put your bike on the bus

[cvcalhoun]

National Geographic

Food: first coffee with real cream, oranges, granola bars
Swag: water bottles, coupons for free circulator ride
Raffles: even though they were supposed to go on until 10:00, the last one had ended by 9:40.

[cvcalhoun]

Skipped:

Rockville Fallsgrove and Twinbrook, and Rock Springs Business Park (too far out of the way)
NIH (security would have taken even longer than at Naval Medical, and it didn't have the advantage of being open early).
Golden Triangle Farragut Square and Georgetown Waterfront (closed by the time I made it there)
Golden Triangle L Street (Where were you guys? I got to 19th and L 15 minutes before it was supposed to have closed, and couldn't find any sign of a pit stop. The people at Farragut Square said that several others had also been unable to find them.)