Jess's old blog: Down Town Baltimore

We started out the morning.. ok I SAY morning.. but it was really noon.. by going over to Hardee's to get something to eat. Good thing it was in walking distance!!! ****Nothing racist or mean is being said by these next statements...*** But man we really realized we were not in Kansas anymore! We were pretty out numbered race wise and were getting some pretty dirty looks! You could tell people didn't like us just because we were white.. we found that to be the theme of the trip in Baltimore! We got dirty looks like crazy.. we were starred at constantly.. we were very much a minority almost everywhere we went in the city. There were nice people that we met. Not saying it was all black people that didn't like us. Just a good chunk of them!

After being given dirty looks while we ate breakfast we decided to call our crazy cab driver to come back and take us to the rental car place again. He was a white guy himself but when Chris told him where we needed to be picked up he said "oh you're those two white girls from last night" haha yup that's us!

So Mr Cab Driver pulls into our hotel parking lot and the first words out of his mouth is "that guy who was in here with his kids last night is one sick mother f******!!!!" Haha. He proceeds to tell us how the guy uses his 2 small children to pick up on women. He tells them that's the only way that he'll spend time with them. He was 2 older children and a wife back at home. He's a trucker who spends most of his time on the road. As our cabbie is going on and on about how demented this guy is.. his (the cab drivers) daughter whose maybe 10 is sitting in the front seat. In between sentences he keeps commenting to us how cute his daughter is. He tells us last night after he dropped us off he picked up his girlfriend before he dropped off the guy and his kids... and how the guy kept trying to pick up his girlfriend. Well his daughter is talking just as fast as he is. While he's telling us this story he's also driving in 2 lanes, not stopping at stop signs, not signalling. Then he tells his daughter to show us an 8x10 picture in a frame she gave him for Fathers Day. Its a collage of different pictures of her. He then takes the picture and frame and sets it on top of the steering wheel as he's driving through a 2 lane cement barricaded construction zone. At this point Chris cant even look. She's turning into the seat to hide her eyes and keeps gasping. I am laughing so hard I almost cant breathe. He is NOT paying attention to the road at all. We survived our 10 minute ride to the rental car place and said goodbye to the cabbie and his daughter.. as he's trying to talk us into paying him to take us to Emmitsburg! Ha!

We filled out all the paperwork with Enterprise. They were FANTASTIC! I highly recommend them!! We walked out to where we were to pick up the car and the guy tells us they are OUT of the size we reserved.. which only makes me think of the Seinfeld episode and start laughing.. how are you out of a reserved car?! I was waiting for the shoe to drop. There had to be bad new.. NOPE! Free upgrade to a full size. We got a brand new 2010 Black Ford Focus with 700 miles on it. Woo hoo!

We left the rental car place and started out into Baltimore. The roads there are so hard to get around on. I'll save you all the stories.. because there are a lot.. but to sum it up we got lost A LOT. A LOT. We map quested and everything else and had a hell of a time trying to get around.

We ended up in ghettos a lot. Here you have 2 white girls, obviously lost, in a brand new shiny car. We're lucky we didn't get hurt!

But we still had a blast! It was an adventure for sure

We passed this male on the side of the road. His hat said he was a veteran. His feet were mangled. His stomach was so large it had torn a hole in his pants and was bursting through. His hands were mangled. It was a hot humid day and here he sits on a park bench dressed in layers. Broke my heart.