Heading Home Tonight

View from our marina

You can see from the picture that we're in the big city now with giant military ships docked just across the river. We have done our tour of Baltimore along the waterfront - some interesting rejuvenated areas - "historic properties" - formerly run down and not so prosperous. Lots of good restaurants - a few unique type shops although we didn't bother with exploring all but one or two. I'm not much in the mood for shopping these days - except for food! All along the waterfront there is new development - tons of condos and town homes facing the water - all looking very nice - and most developments half full or some of the newest - mostly empty. I get the feeling that one could get a real bargain if they wanted to buy here - but I'm not sure that this city would be my choice. We actually took a boat ("water taxi") which stops at designated points of interest but we soon lost interest. There's nothing here that tops anything that we have at home. We did tour an example of a "screw pile" lighthouse which is peculiar to this area. It's intriguing to imagine how it might have been to be a lighthouse keeper and live in that kind of structure months on end tending the light through the night. So - we think that we'll leave the day after we return. We paid for a week - this is an extremely reasonable marina with good security so we feel fortunate - but enough is enough and we're off next Wednesday- probably to an anchorage in the Chester River.

Happy Thanksgiving