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. Her essay, Six Degrees of Vietnam, was shortlisted for "The Best American Travel Writing 2009."


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

Bryan 06.13.08 | 2:55 PM ET

It isn’t first sex scandal at this hotel.

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