Photo by LaTur

D.C. can be a wondrous place for tourists. It’s got magnificent architecture, history, museums, and bustling streets and sidewalks. There are people from all over the world, homeless people, military folks in uniform, police, politicians, black squirrels, and lots of well-scrubbed young people. There’s the Metro, the Mall, and more. And it’s tourist season, so maybe those fanny-pack wearing throngs standing in front of the escalators are just awe struck, rather than annoying. The greater D.C. metropolitan area can be too much to grasp sometimes. It can be amazing.

Overheard of the Week

On the Green Line near College Park, 6 p.m.:

Teenage tourist on cell phone with relative: “We’re on the subway right now, going out to our hotel. There’s an Applebees right there that we can WALK to!”

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