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When you are traveling with someone without a lot of mobility, a Hop On Hop Off bus tour is the best way to give them an overview of a place. So I took my visiting sister-in-law on a Big Bus Tour of Washington, DC, on Christmas Eve. The tour is definitely overpriced at about $45 a person, but she loved it, and we had a birds-eye view of Washington’s most iconic buildings and monuments from the upper level. She loved it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Big Bus<\/a>Tours has a useful app that lets you follow your bus’s progress on a map, and see where the next bus is if you decide to disembark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The audio version of the tour — everyone gets free headphones — included a lot of historical tidbits that we both found fascinating. But there are definitely some limitations to a bus. They can’t get as close as you like sometimes, so we saw the graves at Arlington Cemetery from a distance, and couldn’t even see the Potomac River when we passed the Wharf and the Southwest Waterfront. But now we know where to go back and explore!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some of the sights we saw:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n