Howdy folks! After yesterday's review, you may be surprised to know that we had breakfast at Bob Evans. Well, we didn't have too many options, and I reasoned that they may be like Denney's where their regular food is so so, but they do breakfast fine. This was the case. They actually had lots of choices and were cheaper than Denney's. We had to turn in the rental car by 9 AM, so we needed to get up, get breakfast and get the rental car to the drop off spot at the airport. Dwayne had a biscuit bowl. He enjoyed it and I had a bite with some biscuit and gravy and it tasted pretty good. I like biscuits as much as the next guy. Using them as a bread bowl, while
calorically insane, is a tasty idea.
I went for broke and had this breakfast with two eggs, bacon, potatoes and a blueberry crepe. Everything was well done. Strangely, the potatoes were not at all crispy, but they tasted very good. I wonder if the seasoning on them included MSG because they tasted a little addictive. One nice touch is that they offered me a cup of coffee to go.
After turning in the car we found our way to the light rail station and headed into Baltimore for the day. It was actually a very pretty ride through lots of greenery. We disembarked a little south of Inner Harbor so that we could check out a book store and comic book store Dwayne found in the phone book. After some browsing, he sat down to figure out our course. I saw him sitting in front of this historic fire house and just had to get a picture.
Note the message on the bench.
Here's the view from the fire house towards downtown.
Here's another wooden ship.
Another bird who was kind enough to pose for me and to sing a song.
The good news is that we found two Triple D sites in
Fells Point, the neighborhood east of the Inner Harbor. The bad news is that we didn't get to actually eat at either of them. We found Blue Moon while looking for a lunch place. The food looked fabulous, but it was very crowded, with a long wait. Also, we had already eaten a big breakfast type meal, and that is their specialty. I'll just have to try making
Cap'n Crunch french toast at home.
While walking on in search of lunch, I spotted this helpful building. I don't think it was functioning as advertised, but I was tickled to see this historic public restroom.
Here is where we ended up for lunch. Alexander's Tavern. They had lots of historical pictures of Baltimore, including a few from the big fire of 1904. I didn't know anything about this, but it looked pretty devastating. The photos reminded me of those I've seen after the SF earthquake of 1906. So many of the eastern cities seem to be made of brick and this photo showed mountains of crumbled bricks where buildings used to be. For lunch we had a slider platter with tater tots. The sliders had crab cakes, cheeseburgers, pulled pork and roast beef.
This is the second Triple D site and we came across it by accident after our lunch. Sigh. Our mission of eating at Triple D sites was not thoroughly accomplished. Sometimes we just sat down and ate what we could when we could.
This is an old building that was used to film Homicide. One funny side story: there is a water taxi station right next to this building and we didn't know it because it wasn't indicated on the map. We walked about a mile to another neighborhood to catch the water taxi, which promptly came back to this site to transfer us to another water taxi for our destination.
While walking through historic
Fells Point, we discovered another comic book store. A good day for Dwayne!
I saw baby geese on our long walk to the water taxi. We've seen tons of Canadian geese all over the east, but these are the first babies I've seen. They were very cute, but I was a little sad because this bay water is absolutely putrid. I'm very thankful for our clean(
ish) rivers, especially the American. The Sacramento never thought of being this dirty on it's worst day. It is the color burnt umber. No kidding. Not even close to being a color water should be. Also, there is trash everywhere. In fact, they actually had a water drain explode because it got plugged up with trash. There are plastic bits and bottles floating everywhere. There were people kayaking and renting paddle boats. Yuck! I would not want a child to touch that water.
Here's Dwayne on the water taxi. The crew was very friendly and gave us lots of directions.
Our intrepid captain.
Happy but tired. After the water taxi, we headed for the light rail so we could go back to the hotel. Dwayne used his navigational skills to help us get off the light rail early (before the airport) and we took a walk to our hotel on a lovely bike trail that runs around the airport grounds. We saw an adult rabbit, a baby rabbit and a wood chuck! I also saw these beautiful flowers. I wasn't fast enough to get photos of the little mammals, but it was fun to see them.
Tonight's dinner was from the
Quizno's next to the hotel and we spent the evening relaxing and packing. It will be a challenge to keep our luggage in proportion because we've done a bit of shopping. This was a big trip for books and Dwayne's suitcase got most of them. Tomorrow we have to get up at 4 AM to catch the 5 AM shuttle so we can catch our flight at 7 AM. Due to the time zones, we'll get home about noon. We're both ready to resume our regularly scheduled life, already in progress.
Howdy folks! After yesterday's review, you may be surprised to know that we had breakfast at Bob Evans. Well, we didn't have too many options, and I reasoned that they may be like Denney's where their regular food is so so, but they do breakfast fine. This was the case. They actually had lots of choices and were cheaper than Denney's. We had to turn in the rental car by 9 AM, so we needed to get up, get breakfast and get the rental car to the drop off spot at the airport. Dwayne had a biscuit bowl. He enjoyed it and I had a bite with some biscuit and gravy and it tasted pretty good. I like biscuits as much as the next guy. Using them as a bread bowl, while calorically insane, is a tasty idea.
I went for broke and had this breakfast with two eggs, bacon, potatoes and a blueberry crepe. Everything was well done. Strangely, the potatoes were not at all crispy, but they tasted very good. I wonder if the seasoning on them included MSG because they tasted a little addictive. One nice touch is that they offered me a cup of coffee to go.
After turning in the car we found our way to the light rail station and headed into Baltimore for the day. It was actually a very pretty ride through lots of greenery. We disembarked a little south of Inner Harbor so that we could check out a book store and comic book store Dwayne found in the phone book. After some browsing, he sat down to figure out our course. I saw him sitting in front of this historic fire house and just had to get a picture.
Note the message on the bench.
Here's the view from the fire house towards downtown.
Here's another wooden ship.
Another bird who was kind enough to pose for me and to sing a song.
The good news is that we found two Triple D sites in Fells Point, the neighborhood east of the Inner Harbor. The bad news is that we didn't get to actually eat at either of them. We found Blue Moon while looking for a lunch place. The food looked fabulous, but it was very crowded, with a long wait. Also, we had already eaten a big breakfast type meal, and that is their specialty. I'll just have to try making Cap'n Crunch french toast at home.
While walking on in search of lunch, I spotted this helpful building. I don't think it was functioning as advertised, but I was tickled to see this historic public restroom.
Here is where we ended up for lunch. Alexander's Tavern. They had lots of historical pictures of Baltimore, including a few from the big fire of 1904. I didn't know anything about this, but it looked pretty devastating. The photos reminded me of those I've seen after the SF earthquake of 1906. So many of the eastern cities seem to be made of brick and this photo showed mountains of crumbled bricks where buildings used to be. For lunch we had a slider platter with tater tots. The sliders had crab cakes, cheeseburgers, pulled pork and roast beef.
This is the second Triple D site and we came across it by accident after our lunch. Sigh. Our mission of eating at Triple D sites was not thoroughly accomplished. Sometimes we just sat down and ate what we could when we could.
This is an old building that was used to film Homicide. One funny side story: there is a water taxi station right next to this building and we didn't know it because it wasn't indicated on the map. We walked about a mile to another neighborhood to catch the water taxi, which promptly came back to this site to transfer us to another water taxi for our destination.
While walking through historic Fells Point, we discovered another comic book store. A good day for Dwayne!
I saw baby geese on our long walk to the water taxi. We've seen tons of Canadian geese all over the east, but these are the first babies I've seen. They were very cute, but I was a little sad because this bay water is absolutely putrid. I'm very thankful for our clean(ish) rivers, especially the American. The Sacramento never thought of being this dirty on it's worst day. It is the color burnt umber. No kidding. Not even close to being a color water should be. Also, there is trash everywhere. In fact, they actually had a water drain explode because it got plugged up with trash. There are plastic bits and bottles floating everywhere. There were people kayaking and renting paddle boats. Yuck! I would not want a child to touch that water.
Here's Dwayne on the water taxi. The crew was very friendly and gave us lots of directions.
Our intrepid captain.
Happy but tired. After the water taxi, we headed for the light rail so we could go back to the hotel. Dwayne used his navigational skills to help us get off the light rail early (before the airport) and we took a walk to our hotel on a lovely bike trail that runs around the airport grounds. We saw an adult rabbit, a baby rabbit and a wood chuck! I also saw these beautiful flowers. I wasn't fast enough to get photos of the little mammals, but it was fun to see them.
Tonight's dinner was from the Quizno's next to the hotel and we spent the evening relaxing and packing. It will be a challenge to keep our luggage in proportion because we've done a bit of shopping. This was a big trip for books and Dwayne's suitcase got most of them. Tomorrow we have to get up at 4 AM to catch the 5 AM shuttle so we can catch our flight at 7 AM. Due to the time zones, we'll get home about noon. We're both ready to resume our regularly scheduled life, already in progress.
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