Our new driver is Rick, who wears boots, big cowboy hat, etc. He seems quite efficient, and knows where he's going, but his personality is much quieter than Stan. Hope Stan's having fun in Canada.
We arrived at the Harbor area of Baltimore with about 2 hours to look around and have lunch. The "official" schedule says we should have had 3 1/2 hours, but we arrived later than the schedule indicated. We didn't get into traffic, we didn't leave late, no clue, but that's the way it is.
Harbor area is interesting. Altho we have no guide to provide a running commentary about the area, we enjoyed looking around.
We saw a big(old) ship- USS Constellation and it is open for tours, there is a large aquarium and other attractions, but we really didn't have time for those things. Just as the bus parked to let us off, a heavy rain shower came up. We sat for about 5 minutes until it passed and then got out to get lunch.
The largest restaurant by where we parked was Bubba Gump's Shrimp,
but we walked further into the complex. We finally ended up at 5 Guys burgers- N, hotdog and me small burger, which were very good. Looked around some t shirt shops-- one shirt that caught my eye said "Yankees Suck" There were also lots of Edgar Allen Poe shirts and souvenirs, so I'm thinking he lived here for part of his life.
We really enjoyed a place called It's Sugar--all kinds of candy and sweets imaginable. They also carried 'giant" sizes of well known candies.
There was a giant gummy worm about 2 feet long-- $34.95, a giant tootsie pop about the size of a soft ball. There were Hot Tamale (also Mike and Ike) candies in 1 1/2 pound sizes and a one pound Snickers bar,
We stopped into a gelato shop and had a small cup each, it was good but very expensive. This would be a good place to spend more time doing the activities we didn't have time for this trip. Maybe we should plan to go to Baltimore to see the Rangers play the Orioles someday and come back to the harbor with the time to enjoy the attractions.
We did see an interesting trash receptacle that compacts and recycles. Good idea
Loaded the bus and drove only about 30 minutes to our hotel-- we were here on the way to NYC. This place has one person (girl) to handle suitcases for an entire bus load of folks. We received our suitcases almost 2 hours after arriving. Some folks grabbed theirs and took them up themselves- guess we should have done that also. Nick told her he hoped she got a good "tip" from the tour company and she said it was $3 per room. She worked hard schlepping all those bags around.
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