Baltimore

While in D.C. this summer, I woke up one morning with a urge to explore something new. I see the city every day of the week, so I quickly formulated a list of nearby day trip options. When the options were weighed and compared - Baltimore was the winner. Just a short 40 min drive away and the big city was already in view. In the first five minutes, we could already tell Baltimore would be a cheaper city than D.C. as the parking was 5$ for an entire day rather than 15$ for the first 30 min. in D.C. The vertical height and variation of the buildings first caught my attention when we left the parking lot. Washington has wider streets and a law stating that all buildings can only be up to 20 feet taller than the street they reside on which makes for a very flat skyline. Eventually we made our way downtown to the Inner Harbor to find that the city was much nicer and cleaner than I ever expected it to be.I definitely fell in love with the harbor and reassured my self in how much I love coastal cities compared to the land-locked ones I have always lived in. By the end of the day, I did not want to leave back for my small apartment just north of the nation's capitol but promised myself I would return to the city someday.