Note of Traveller

The 2 hardest things to do inward Baltimore is to larn at that topographic point together with to leave, at to the lowest degree if yous choke past times our experience. One difficult operate is done later an all twenty-four hours flight, difficult lite rail ride, together with a grungy walk to our hotel. We were exhausted together with slept similar logs terminal night. At to the lowest degree Tim together with I did. Letty was kept upward past times a grouping of cheerleaders inward a nearby room. Watch the Video! Now, it’s Lord's Day together with we’re create to run into this metropolis but we’re carless. That’s OK, it’s past times choice. We are doing this entire trip via world transit, salve the flights together with the taxi dorsum to the airdrome when we’re done. Baltimore has a plethora of transit choices. Subway, lite rail, bus, together with H2O taxi, to refer a few. The H2O taxi is non accessible but everything else is. This metropolis is i...

Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Infrogmation of New Orleans nether CC-BY license Punches are a degree of cocktails that mix v or to a greater extent than ingredients together to brand a fruity, refreshing drinkable for a hot day.  It seems that the bulk of punches run rum every bit an alcoholic base. Our punch today is inwards this tradition.  Using rum, limeade, lime juice, elementary syrup, as well as amaretto for that Mediterranean flavor. Watch the Video! Here is the recipe, for i drink: 1 1/2 oz. rum 1/2 oz. amaretto 1 oz. fresh squeezed lime juice 1 oz. elementary syrup limeade In a highball glass, 2/3 filled amongst crushed ice, pour all ingredients except limeade.  Fill to transcend amongst limeade as well as stir. Cheers! -Darryl

We've been told that the best crabcakes inwards Baltimore come upwardly from a stand upwardly at the Lexington Market. Letty's been on a mission to examine equally many equally she tin dismiss spell we're here. Watch the Video! The Charm City Purple Route stops inwards front end of our hotel on Redwood Street in addition to it's a quick, easy, in addition to costless ride to a halt 3 blocks from the market. It's a flake of a downtrodden 3 blocks, rattling like to walking through our hometown's (Los Angeles) Skid Row.  This is our 2d attempt, my married adult woman got sick a distich of days agone in addition to nosotros had to postpone our view but we're hither directly in addition to laid upwardly to go. Faidley's Seafood is inwards the dorsum of the market, allowing us to peruse all the other stands along the way. It actually reminds me of how Grand Central Market inwards L.A. was earlier all the gentrification hit. The sight...

At a immature 23 years old, Camden Yards is already considered a classic stadium. In the early on 90's, Baltimore threw out the templates as well as told architecture theater HOK to produce them an appropriate palace to baseball. Using the massive B&O Railroad warehouse equally a backdrop, HOK went dorsum inwards fourth dimension to produce an former looking stadium amongst modern amenities.  It has had a big influence on simply nigh every baseball game stadium built since.  A lot of history here. Babe Ruth lived higher upward his father's tavern, which was located somewhere betwixt 2d base of operations as well as the correct champaign wall. Cal Ripken, Jr. broke Lou Gerigh's consecutive game streak here. Here are the stats: Opened: 1992 Surface: Kentucky Bluegrass Construction cost: $110 million Capacity: 45,971 Field dimensions: Left champaign - 333 ft; Left optic - 364 ft; optic champaign - 410 ft; cor...

It’s tough waking upward at 2:30 inwards the forenoon for a flying but getting to wing out of Ontario makes upward for that. We slog through our forenoon rituals together with arrive out inwards fourth dimension to arrive to the aerodrome alongside a squeamish cushion of fourth dimension earlier our 5:40am boarding time. The flying is uneventful together with nosotros don’t guide keep to alter planes but nosotros do guide keep to brand a halt inwards Denver earlier a midafternoon arrival at Baltimore Washington International Airport. It’s our showtime fourth dimension inwards Charm City though nosotros guide keep been inwards Maryland before. We’re hither to chalk upward unopen to other dyad of stadiums on our bespeak to encounter every Major League Baseball park. This trip volition consummate our northeast teams when nosotros cash inwards one's chips to an Orioles game inwards a dyad of days together with a Nationals game 2 to a greater extent than after that. We’l...

Ah, the e'er pop Rubio. What? You've never heard of it? Don't experience bad...I simply made it up. Actually, Tim in addition to I made it up, every bit you lot tin hand the axe run into inwards this week's Cocktail Hour video. Watch the Video! The history is nosotros made to a greater extent than or less vino from the juice of our grape vine inwards the backyard. Not a smashing wine, inwards fact simply barely drinkable. What to do? At my wife's suggestion, nosotros poured a salubrious slug of amaretto into it and...voila...something much improve emerged. If you lot don't accept your ain barely drinkable, homemade wine, don't effort it. Just teach a actually inexpensive bottle of rose, seat a shot in addition to a one-half of amaretto inwards it in addition to you lot tin hand the axe accept your ain Rubio. Where'd the cite come upwardly from? Well, spotter the video (it's short, entirely iv minutes) for the answer......

We must similar this hotel, we've stayed hither repeatedly over the terminal decade in addition to a half. At first, it was called the Hallmark Suites. Great complimentary breakfast bar, cocktail lounge, in addition to puddle area. Nice ii room suites. It became the Sierra Suites after that in addition to thus changed into a Hyatt House. All yet the same but looking a niggling worn at our terminal remain a twosome of years ago. Soon after nosotros checked out, it closed downwards in addition to underwent a year-plus renovations in addition to reopened a few months agone every bit a Doubletree Suites. Watch the Video! Nice place across the street from the Sunrise low-cal rails station, giving you lot slowly access to downtown Sacramento to the due west in addition to the fifty-fifty nicer Old Town Folsom to the east. This time, I was offered a ii floor loft unit of measurement amongst ii bathrooms, mobility access, in addition to ii bedrooms each amongst a m...