Not the places people call “tourist traps”. The phrase itself.
There is no such thing. As with art, and so many other subjective topics, a tourist trap in the eye of the beholder.
Tag: tourist
We had a brief burst of spring weather last week so I took advantage and spent a little time wandering around National Harbor, Maryland with my camera.
This is a very touristy area with lots hotels, recreation, restaurants, and shops, except that we have very few tourists in the area right now. Makes for rather empty but still interesting images, a few of which are below. The rest are in this gallery.
I’ve been past and around the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown DC many times but never really taken a good look inside the place. So I recently took a tour and, of course, brought the camera. Here are a few of the better images and more are in this gallery.
The view down Pennsylvania Avenue from Freedom Plaza towards the Capitol. The Reagan building is to the right.
The massive atrium of the main building.
A portrait of Woodrow Wilson on a window in the center named for him. One of many discontinuities in a building named for Reagan.
I like the pattern in the seats of the auditorium. This is home of the Capitol Steps, a political satire group that started early in the Reagan administration. The irony is not lost.