It was our plan to take a
cruise today...but unfortunately, they
were not taking any cruises on this day
(not sure why - perhaps because it was
kind of a grey, overcast weekday and the
harbor was not very crowded). Not easily
discouraged, we boarded the Water Taxi
which cruises the harbor to 16 different
landings around the harbor.
There's
that little lighthouse again. The Duck
captain told us that the lower part (the
brown part) was for livestock.
This
paddleboat was moored at Fells Point. I
thought it was odd that the paddleboat
was covered with election campaign
posters and then learned that former
President Cllinton was scheduled to
campaign for the local candidate later in
the day.
We
saw several working tugboats in the
harbor.
This WW II submarine was moored
outside the aquarium. Former President
Jimmy Carter served aboard this vessel.
We got off the taxi
in Little Italy. This is the sewage
plant. A beautiful old building for a
sewage plant!
This old steam
roller was parked outside the sewage
plant.
We visited the Civil War Museum on
President Street. Below are postage
stamps depicting the Civil War.
This illustrates what it
looked like on the evening that the Civil
War started.
There were stamps that
showed different people from the Civil
War.
Also,
there was an illustration of what it
looked liked when all the people of
Baltimore and the Confederates were
fighting.
These are different weapons used
during the Civil War.
These were
items owned by those who fought in the
Civil War.
~Baltimore to Hancock, Maryland~
This was a unique bridge that caught
our eye while we were
"cruising" downtown Hancock
Maryland (which consissted of a Main
Street and that was it).
Friday, October 20th
There is good news and
bad news about Friday. We made
reservations two weeks ago to go trail
riding in Southwestern Pennsylvania
today. When it started pouring rain
Thursday night, I prayed it would clear
up and the sun would shine by
morning....so I was thrilled when the sun
broke through the clouds about 10 am
Friday morning as we drove west toward
the Greenridge Horse Ranch. Around every
corner was yet another glorious vista
with awesome fall colors! (It was so hard
to choose just a few photos from the 50
or so we took.
The bad
news is that this is as close as we got
to trail riding! Guess I should have
prayed that we would have a lovely trail
ride because it turned out they cancelled
all rides this day because of the weather
the night before. We called a few other
places...but got the same story. But it was
a lovely drive to Morgantown, West
Virginia.
