Mashing Up Washington D.C.‘s Sex Scandals

Travel Blog  •  Julia Ross  •  03.13.08 | 12:03 PM ET

It didn’t take long for camera-toting tourists to ferret out Room 871 at Washington D.C.‘s Mayflower Hotel. The site of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s call girl tryst is the latest in a long list of sex scandal locales dotting the capital. For those interested in mapping out their own tour, Slate helpfully provides an annotated Google mash-up.

Tags: Geography for Fun and Profit, Hotels, Maps, Politics, North America, United States, Washington, D.C., News and Briefs

Julia Ross is a Washington, DC-based writer and frequent contributor to World Hum. She has lived in China and Taiwan, where she was a Fulbright scholar and Mandarin student. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Plenty and other publications.


1 Comment for Mashing Up Washington D.C.‘s Sex Scandals

Bryan 06.13.08 | 1:55 PM ET

It isn’t first sex scandal at this hotel.

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