Sometimes it makes sense for me to ramble on as I recap a travel experiences and other times I have pictures that will do a much better job. Also since this is a post holiday Monday, I suspect that most people could do without excessive reading today.
On the second day of our visit to Baltimore, The Wife and I took the train down to Washington D.C. to stroll around a bit and meet up with my good friend, Mr. Wilson. The day after that, Mr. Wilson took a train up to Baltimore to keep me company (a.k.a. bar hop with me) while The Wife was in her conference all day. That pretty much explains the string of pictures below.
Union Station has some beautiful spaces
A different view of The Capitol
Not bad for behind thick glass
Stopped for a moment to smell the flowers
Finally some shade for a moment
Head just inside the door and go to your right . . .
and bring your reading glasses for the beer list!
I must pause to make a more prominent mention of The Brickskeller, where we stopped in D.C. for lunch (and beer). Having a list of 1000 bottles of beer to choose from can be a very difficult situation. Usually I gravitate towards the draft list, which will narrow my selection down a bit before I really put any effort into a decision. I did not have that option, so that day I focused on American breweries. I do enjoy beer from many other places, but there is so much good craft beer in the United States to choose from that I have much work to do just to try half of it. So after that, I looked for breweries that I don’t see here in Florida. It just so happened that I landed at what was actually the first beer on the list and a 21st Amendment Brew Free or Die. It was a pretty IPA heavy weekend all in all.
21st Amendment - Brew Free or Die
How would you tackle such a big list of beer options?
Mr. Wilson come to Baltimore via Penn Station
Keeping me company at Koopers
I do love me some good beer in a can.
How sad . . . no really.
There are so many more pictures to get to. Maybe I will give Baltimore and D.C. another feature sometime soon.
Until then . . .
couldn’t help yourself but to post pictures of Union Station could you! There are nights where I still see those coffers and statues in my sleep.
I despise walking into a building when I know too much about its infrastructure.
Ha . . . I guess not, though I did not spend nearly as much time there this time. It was nice to just be able to enjoy the space without having to remember anything specific about it.