"From the inside of the beltway looking... " a Washington D.C. Travel Page by PA2AKgirl

A lot of times you'll hear the reference "inside the beltway" or "outside the beltway", hence my title.
DC is a great city and I know there are millions of pages on it, so I'll try to keep this away from what everyone else has written , if possible.

I was an intern there in 2001, on Capitol Hill. I have had a lot of great experiences, but I think this is the one I am the most thankful for. I never even thought about being an intern in Congress--my degree is in Geography--but this came up with focus on Environmental Policy and I was very fortunate to have been chosen for the pilot program. In the few months I was there, i got to meet some great people, most of which worked for the Congressman and the Congressman himself. There may be a lot of corrupt politicians out there, but he is not one of them. I admire this man very very much...

That was my first real taste of DC. I had been there on school trips and passing through, but that doesn't count. Well, you know what? It probably wasn't a "real" taste of DC because we were put in a huge, beautiful house in NW DC and we were among the maybe 2% of interns on Capitol Hill that got paid. So, really if I lived there now, it would be not nearly as glamorous as it was then.