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This Week on Metro Connection: Visitors

By: Rebecca Sheir // March 4, 2011
  
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Visitors ride segways on a tour of D.C.
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Visitors ride segways on a tour of D.C.

'Tis the season...for tourists! Or the start of the season, anyway. So, on today's show, we're taking out hats off to Visitors, of all sorts -- from tourists to wildlife to pop-up retail shops.

[Music: "Every Little Bit Hurts" by John Davis from Title Tracks]

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