I just called the Ramada & the Days Inn, both in Silver Spring, MD. Both have rooms during NANOG in the under $100 range. They are about 7-10 minutes walking from the Silver Spring Metro, and it's about 20 minutes ride to Metro Center. You might take a cab while hauling luggage. I'm sure there are lots of other places if you're willing to brave the Metro. [That's a joke -- unlike oh NYC, the WMATA Metrorail is clean, carpeted, and full of folks of all incomes, unwilling to risk the horrors of DC traffic.] -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433