Blogs from Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North America - page 6

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We arrived! Great flights via Southwest Airlines - San Jose to Phoenix with a short layover - then onto Baltimore! Only problem was, when we were sitting on the plane in Phoenix, Nikki was watching the men load the luggage onto the plane out of her window...she then showed me the cart that held our luggage (identifiable by the nice gold ribbon we had attached to the handles) which were still sitting on the carts as the men closed the plane up - they were done loading. We waved goodbye to our suitcases (Tim never did believe us!) as we headed east. When we arrived in Baltimore, no surprise to us girls, there was no luggage for us to retrieve! We worked it out with Southwest (sparing you the details), earned a new suitcase, surrendering the ... read more

Cruising the East Coast - 2009 We really enjoyed our month long stay at Brunswick Landing Marina. This was our longest marina stay since leaving Kemah, Texas back in October of 2007. The facility at Brunswick Landing was first class. All wide concrete floating docks, with a nearly new shore-side bathhouse, laundry and cruiser lounge in close proximity. Best of all the laundry was free. They also had free wifi and cable TV at every slip. We cashed in enough American Express membership rewards points to pay for a rental car for the month we spent in Georgia. This allowed us to explore the nearby islands of St. Simon and Jekyll as well as the historic town of Brunswick. Also, we now had transportation to Atlanta and back to help set up the wedding of our ... read more

Monday, June 8 On the road again...and happy birthday, Steve! Tennessee is one long state east to west and I began to wonder if we'd ever get out of it. As we passed exit signs on the freeway to many small cities throughout Tennessee, Steve began to reminisce about his travel in the early 1970's when he worked for Seligman & Latz in New York. His job at S & L was to visit the various beauty salons the company ran in department stores throughout the country and he, being the low man on the totem pole, got some very interesting routes to travel throughout the south - Rome, Georgia where he got to go waterskiing in a bayou with alligators and Ashland, Kentucky and the $7 a night motel room. He dredged up names out ... read more

We spent today, Friday the 13th, exploring the Baltimore Museum of Art during the grown-up version of a field trip with people from Seth’s work. A couple of art students had volunteered to give us a tour of the museum and discuss some of the pieces on display, but the formal tour soon dissipated into occasional casual conversations, mostly due to people like me who become easily distracted and wander off. I wandered from painting to painting and sculpture to sculpture, photographing whatever caught my interest. There were numerous intriguing items exhibited, and though I enjoyed the more traditional landscape paintings the most, the strange concoctions in the Contemporary Art section inspired the most critical discussions. And I spent a great deal of time touching and floating through and swimming about in the blue and silver ... read more