Travels of THB: THB has an appointment with a doctor

THB and KBM with the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch

Wednesday, August 11

Department of Transportation in a Covid World:

Uber late to pick up DB and THB, $10 credit
THB attempts to add Delta frequent flyer numbers at gate: this takes 10 minutes for two agents, who spend more time discussing a broken printer than how to input the numbers
Flight to Atlanta left and arrived on time. Box breakfast in First Class, ran out of one of three choices
Can't get into Sky Club flying First Class
Have to use AMEX card to enter Sky Club, one for a couple doesn't get both in; $38/pp for guests. THB waits outside while DB uses Wifi
Weather in Baltimore, storm passing through, delays flight for over 2 hours. Plane deboards, one woman is 15+ minutes late boarding after the plane is ready to shut the doors.
Land in Baltimore and the shuttle to car rental facility takes 20 minutes. Hertz line has 9 in front of us, one checkout person. THB goes to several other spots, no cars available. All the people from the out-of-car places are in Hertz line. Enterprise has cars, THB gets a standard car for $200 more than Hertz for the 4 days.
Enterprise brings your car right to the car rental facility door. Drive to exit; two lines, neither moving. Line THB and DB is in closes. Two lines merge, and after 10+ minites a new checkout booth opens and the closed booth re-opens.
Fifteen minutes later we are our way to Pendry, a boutique hgtel in downtown Baltimore on the inner harbor. Drive pass Camden Yards, Orioles losing yet another ballgame, this time before 9K fans.
It's dark, night time. THB is not sure where he is, a new road to him. Three times, while going at speed limit of 60 with little or no traffic, he comes up on cars going 40 mph. Very dangerous. Could be worse, having the CA drag racers going by at 80+ mph (that turns out to be case the next evening, while still light out)

May be open, it sure is slow

It's after 10pm, no food service is open in hotel. THB and DB have snacks and open the complementary bottle of Chappellet Mountain Cuvee.

Thursday, August 12

Breakfast service is en suite. Yogurt and fruit and granola (huge) and lemon poppy seed for THB, eggs and bacon and potatoes for DB (huge) and carafe of decaf with warm milk on side.

Typical breakfast, that is one huge bowl of yogurt, granola and fruit

Sagamore Pendry Hotel, brick building was there, rooms were built on the abandoned pier

Inside courtyard

Never visited

How hot was it? Too hot to swim in the sun

Department of Transportation in a Covid World (cont'd): THB changes the Enterprise reservation to drop off the car at an inner harbor location on Friday and avoid another airport mash-up; drop off other than airport costs $50 and shorting a day saves $100. The new plan is to Uber to airport on Saturday using up the rest of the savings.

Department of Art:

Baltimore of Art: Partially closed to get ready for the next exhibit and severely limiting visitors, DB and THB pretty much have the place to ourselves. The modern art collection on display is excellent, with well thought out attributions explaining how the museum collection came to being through huge donations by three women in the 1940s and 50s.
The American Museum of Visionary Art: for self-taught and intuitive artists, THB and DB actually own a piece by a pair of trash-collectors (just our ages) who scour the N. California coast for beach trash and then create art pieces out of the trash (our work is a photograph of a compilation of plastic toy soldiers). The couple we are seeing later today are holding a wedding for one of their daughters at this museum next year.