The intrigue plays out several days a week in a studio apartment in downtown Leesburg, accessible only through a small parking lot and up a steep flight of stairs. It is a \u201csafe house\u201d for a spy \u2014 a Russian agent now cooperating with the U.S. government.<\/p>\n
Across the hall, several wayward students are hatching a plot to escape detention from a classroom with furnishings straight from the 1980s.<\/p>\n
The safe house and the classroom \u2014 in a suite of rooms above MacDowell Brew Kitchen \u2014 are not real. Nor are the scenes that unfold there. They are the \u201cescape rooms\u201d run\u00a0by Exit Plan,\u00a0a locally owned business that creates puzzle-filled adventure games for groups of people to solve.<\/p>\n
Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n Washington Post, August 28, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The intrigue plays out several days a week in a studio apartment in downtown Leesburg, accessible only through a small parking lot and up a steep flight of stairs. It is a \u201csafe house\u201d for a spy \u2014 a Russian agent now cooperating with the U.S. government. Across the hall, several wayward students are hatching … Continue reading “Exit Plan: Leesburg’s Escape Room”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18,22,113,14,3],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-business","tag-downtown","tag-entertainment","tag-leesburg","tag-loudoun-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}