Saturday, September 4, 2010

Crystal City Water Park, 1700 Block of Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202

Not long after meeting John in Suki I, a stranger offers to light Suki's cigarette near here. The water park is one of Suki's favorite spots in Arlington and she hopes to have her wedding ceremony here one day, if she ever finds a man who wants a Libertarian wedding (no wedding license).


A park that Suki enjoys in the first Suki series. She walks past this park between her apartment and work at her mother's office at 23rd and Crystal Drive.

Suki's Crystal City Apartment: Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA, 22202

Suki's apartment appears in most of the books.  Located near the intersection of 15th Street South and Crystal Drive, in Crystal City, Arlington, VA 22202.

View Suki's World in Suki I; Suki II: Sunshine Returns; Suki III; Suki IV; Suki V and Suki: Fan Fiction in a larger map

In the original series (Suki I, Suki II: Sunshine Returns, Suki III: Never Let Us End and Suki IV: Finally A Vacation) her apartment was decorated with furniture, mostly cherry, that she customized herself with ornate carvings.

In Suki With A Twist, everything is store bought of the finest quality available in the 2030s.

Suki and John's first night together is in Suki's apartment, in Suki I.  In Suki II: Sunshine Returns, almost everything happens in Suki's apartment from the point John rescues Suki from Sunshine.  Much of Suki III: Never Let Us End happens in her apartment too.
Suki's apartment is at this intersection in both series. A previous apartment of John's, from the first series, is near here too.
Suki's apartment faces the river and airport, to the right of the shot. In the Suki With A Twist series, Suki keeps her import sports car collection in the underground parking garage.
In both series, the buildings on the west side of Crystal Drive (left side of shot) are much taller. In Suki With A Twist a covered pedestrian overpass crosses Crystal Drive, connecting the apartment buildings to The Underground.

Mentioned in the first series, occasionally there are protests in Suki's neighborhood by people from Washington, DC and Maryland.  In the 2030s, Virginia requires people to be financially liable for damage they cause, especially while driving.  When a DC or MD motorist loses their home the usual activists arrive in force to protest the "plantation mentality" of Virginians.  These protests resemble this video (shot in DC, 2010, near one of John and Suki's favorite restaurants):