While thousands of tourists clamor daily to visit any of the District’s many museums and memorials, Northern Virginia sits across the river, unwanted and unloved. Well, they’re trying to change that.

Hoping to lure some the District’s tourists and their many dollars over to their side of the Potomac River, tourism officials in Northern Virginia have launched a creative, if somewhat childish promotional program, writes the Examiner. The Northern Virginia Visitors Consortium has started handing out hundreds of copies of a new children’s book titled “The Sad Little Motorcoach,” which details the travails of Molly, a tour bus bored with constantly circling the District. The 30-page book follows Molly as she hits up Mt. Vernon, Potomac Mills mall, the U.S. Marine Memorial, Old Town Alexandria, and other sites of interest in NoVA. The book was given out to more than 600 tour companies yesterday.

District officials are planning on responding with their own children’s book in which Ramon, a gay tour bus, is chased out of Virginia by torch-wielding conservatives who accuse him of destroying the state’s fragile social fabric and undermining the institution of marriage for heterosexual buses throughout the state.