Baltimore

I parked on Light Street and walked to a used bookstore I'd located on the internet (The Book Escape‎). Fort McHenry? Nah.

There's a good book on Egyptian Painting that I like--up to now I've only had the german language version, despite its availability on Amazon--finally I can read the text, which I mentioned to the woman who sold it to me for 8 bucks, such a deal, even better than online.

Maybe because of that, when I asked her where the art museum was she sent me to the Walters museum "near our Washington monument." They have some nice egyptian pieces, a good greek and roman section.







It was over 90 in Baltimore but I was eating it up, brickhouse streetfronts. A sense of subdued pace on that Friday morning. Then I did my 3-point turn and aimed my starfighter (a Ford Focus) back to Dulles Airport. Asteroids and accidents clogging the beltway, but I still vectored in an hour before my flight.



Business went well--it was fulfilling that Arbitron's business model is really like ours was, we can see right where we fit in. A few egos and wrinkles to that, but it should work out.



The hotel was on the edge of a pretty little lake in Columbia, which otherwise I didn't have too much fondness for the town--some fabulous herons there--I saw a Green Heron, a Great Blue, a Night Heron, and a greater Egret, all in the same place at more or less the same time. More fireflies.