Baltimore, Philadelphia, DC

I should really cheat and back-date this post somehow…. but anyway I wanted to throw up a recount of this trip before our next one starts, so here goes:

Heather and I took August 29th through September 1st to travel to Baltimore to visit her brother and be tourists in the area for a few days. It was an amazingly fun time, we really enjoyed our time with Todd and Susan, as well as getting to see some really cool things.

Day one (Saturday):

we walked down to the museum, where the featured display was something like “Real Body 2.” It was interesting, but got a little overwhelming in places where people were packed in tight and you felt sort of trapped with the dead body. Later that day we went into the IMAX of “The Human Body,” it was a cool experience as well. Between those 2 events we walked up to the park overlooking the harbor, for an amazing view of the city. It may sound like a bit of a biology overload, but we had a lot of fun!

Day two (Sunday):

We drove out to Philadelphia, leaving … not really first thing, but we got there before noon at least 🙂 All the historic sites are surprisingly close together there. I mean even if they did have to walk everywhere, we parked farther away than any of the local founding fathers would have had to walk to pickup the fancy new flag and show it to the guys signing the constitution. What we did see: The liberty bell, The outside of the Ross house, The historic church everyone went to, Benjamin Franklin’s grave, Constitution Hall. Things we did not see: The inside of the Ross house (aka the place the flag was made), the Art museum steps “Rocky” ran up. The first because the house was tiny, and I decided making Heather mad would be a better idea than paying $2, and the second because it was on the other side of the map, and we didn’t want to walk that far. Instead of walking anywhere we had philly cheese-steak sandwiches for a late lunch, and sat on a bench behind Constitution Hall for a few hours, it was again a really simple, but pleasant time.

Day three (Monday):

We drove into DC Monday, after some checking online to see what kind of things we could do on a holiday. We settled on a plan where we would rent bikes, and just see what we wanted to do from there. First off let me say “bikes are THE WAY to do the capital mall” I have been once before and I got tired of walking long before I saw everything I wanted to. The Bikes forced us to take longer paths sometimes because the direct-path sidewalks had a lot of people walking on them, but travel was so much easier we still could go wherever we wanted to go without being worn out. Under those conditions we hit pretty much every monument there, and got some cool pictures including the one in the masthead. After lunch we headed to Georgetown, a few miles from the capital mall area. Somewhere along the road out there a pedal started to fall off Heather’s bike, so the afternoon was less ideal. I could go into detail about Georgetown, but this is really long, so lets just say it was pretty and historic, then we got on a plane, landed in KC, and drove to Omaha, wrapping up an incredibly full, incredibly fun weekend.

-Jordan