Introduction and Table of Contents

This is the saga of Patty and Dick and Marilyn and George's visit to Baltimore, Maryland, August 20-24, 2002. It is Volume One of a projected series. We have resolved as a group to visit each of our home towns. We began with Marilyn's. Our next visit will be to mine: Wilmington, North Carolina, and the nearby beaches. Finally, there is to be a visit to Utica, New York, site of both Patty and Dick's nativity. What fun awaits!

Contents

Day One We fly from Atlanta to Baltimore and find our hotel. In the evening we visit the Inner Harbor for dinner and the usual piano bar revelry. After returning to our hotel, Dick and I gave Marilyn and Patty a bridge lesson.

Day Two Today we're off to the National Aquarium and some of the harbor sights. At night we see the Orioles vs. Tampa Bay at Orioles Park at Camden Yards--a fine baseball venue indeed.

Day Three Today we tour the baseball park, Babe Ruth's home and museum, and best of all, the B&O Railroad Museum. Then back "home" for refreshments and some card playing. We're off to McCormick & Schmick's for dinner. More bridge before retiring, of course.

Day Four As a child, Marilyn was traumatized by her parents' visiting Hershey, Pennsylvania, without taking her along. We brought closure to this psychic wound by motoring over to Hershey today and visiting Chocolate World. This evening it was dinner at Wayne's Bar-B-Que followed by a return to the usual piano bar for postprandial libations and singing. More bridge.

Day Five We begin the day by visiting the site we came here to see---Marilyn's childhood home. After calming down, we revisited the Inner Harbor area for lunch, and then we're off to the airport for our return flight to Atlanta.

August, 2002
Marietta, Georgia