Sunday, August 23: Shady Side to Towson and Home

Well, we all got up pretty late. I got up around 11 o'clock because I could not get comfortable last night at all. Either was too cold and weird

A Good Cuppa Coffee

dreams or my body was really stiff. So were eating at a restaurant

Driftwood Diner Menu

called something. I have a large OJ & coffee. For the food I ordered a 12 pack of three pancakes. I love

pancakes. Google maps estimates that my trip to the rental car will take two hours and 41 minutes. It is more cloudy today than the last couple days but it's pretty nice

My Breakfast

anyhow. We came home and I took a nap for about an hour. That felt great. We are leaving at 3:45, So I guess I will get a small fine for my car rental. Its gonna cost $170 anyway with the prepaid fuel, insurance

Driving Back After Breakfast

and taxes piling on. Well I headed up the hour and 15 minutes to talk to Michael's house. I got there five or

Today's View from the Cottage

6 PM which is what Google maps anticipated. Wes went with the Garman GPS and ended up downtown

Relaxing to the End

 Baltimore. I got there about 15 minutes before Wednesday. Mike treated me to leftover couscous and

Heading to Towson & Mikes House

some ice tea and we hung out with Mike Anna and Mary. Weather was delightful and so was the company.

It's been a long time since I've been down here to visit. Mike and Mary had some leftovers from a large get together they had. It's now 6:49 PM

Mary

I'm going to head out which

Mike's Family

means I'm going to get there at 8:49 PM as long as the I-95 doesn't turn into a cluster F**K!!

On Mike's Porch

Well the trip up 95 was very smooth. There are only two slowdowns one near the Delaware border and I-95 I-295 and the area Winchester. Wes is

On the Beltway

about 45 minutes behind me and he's going straight
home. I got to the thrifty Rent-A-Car place and then paid 585 to take over to the station here.

The Susquehanna River in MD

'm at the Eastwick station on the SEPTA  airport line. Instead of walking 22 minutes from the car place I took a $5.95 ride to Eastwick.  I'm going to catch the train to Center City and take the 48 home. That is my

Paying the $8 Toll

Nice Sunset

On the Road

overriding goal . It was quite an old dribble trip and it was nice that the ride home was very smooth.I didn't stop in any of the rest stop thinking it would just kill time for no apparent reason

That Shady Side is a beautiful little place. Wes and I talked and we're

Returning My Rental Car

definitely going to make a point

The Airport Line

of going there before October and then it gets very cold outside. I'm looking forward to seeing Sharon

Saturday, August 22: 1st day in Shadyside

I will do a beautiful sunrise around 7:00 AM and took a couple pictures. I then went back to my squishy bed and got up around 8:30 AM. I decided

Our Cars

I'd in a meeting out here. So I went to Annapolis.

The Meeting was Here

The only thing I found on my way with Dunkin' Donuts I went without coffee till afterwords. A nice gentleman, led me about a mile to Starbucks. It was inside of a Safeway supermarket. I then

 proceeded to spill the coffee in the cup holder area and had to clean that up.

Not a Mercedes Truck

I decided then to finish putting pictures in

Starbucks @ Safeway

yesterday's blog post. It's a beautiful day here look humidity I will be only in the mid 80s today. Far as I know,

Ariel View

Wes and Stuart are just getting up it is 12:03 PM. Well we hung out at Stewart's place for a while. Discussed

The View From the House

various topics and had some coffee. 230 crowd around and we decided we needed to go out and get

 Going to South County Cafe

something to eat. Were eating at this quaint place called South county Café. The other place was closed at 3. Stuart and I had

Lunch

a fish sandwich which was very good and very comfortable. It's now

Stuart's Place

4:30 PM going to chill for a bi find then hit the head and then took a nap till about 6 o'clock. I

Stuart

was pretty tired. While I was doing that, Wes & Stuart were talking about taking their kids to Walt Disney World. We all relaxed & I took a nap and then we went out and took a ride on Stewart's little boat. We then hung out and looked at the beautiful sunset with the half full moon. We got to hear the wonderful sound of crickets in late Summer.up any body's alley. I put a video on Facebook as well.

You would love it here!! This would be right We are now going out to dinner to a place called

skipper's Pier

Bartender

. The weather was perfect😀. It's totally chill. Dinner was pretty good. It was pretty filling that's for sure.

Only the Finest Ingredients

For waitress was nice and we enjoyed ourselves. It was a big feeling and it was really crowded but it was pleasant enough. We then talked for awhile  and then went to bed around

1 am on

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a nice cool night her in Shady Side Maryland