Tourists Go Home
(Posted Saturday a.m. because the wi-fi here was very intermittent last night- pictures will be added later). Our final day of touristing started early. We left the Holiday Inn and drove around the south side of the Baltimore Inner Harbor. Lots of townhome type condos with great views of the water, and many with dock space too. There are hundreds of tiny neighborhoods in Baltimore, separated by the bigger streets, canals, hills and the ethnicity of the residents. The road to Fort McHenry then passes some industrial areas, including the Domino Sugar plant, where there were huge piles of sugar (white, light brown and dark brown) just sitting in the open air. Some of the piles were covered with giant tarps too. The Fort is on a beautiful peninsula that sticks out into the bay. It's a lot of acreage considering it's right in Baltimore harbor. It had a huge hospital during WW I, but that has been removed and the Fort is much like it was in 1814. We were just in time for the ...