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Seeing Jeff Merrill in Baltimore, Maryland

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Sunrise on Sunday, September 14

Sunday through Tuesday were quiet days overall. We’d intended to make a three-day trip to Washington DC on Monday, so we spent Sunday getting Kosmos ready for sea. We also went to Safeway to stock up on passage foods. Since the choices for passage foods at Safeway weren’t great, we went for an early dinner at Verde, and each got an extra to-go pizza for the passage. While we were eating dinner, Eric pulled out his phone to check the weather and saw that the forecast had changed dramatically. A storm was coming on Tuesday, so we decided to postpone leaving until after the storm passed. Twilight on Sunday:

We don’t think we’ve mentioned this yet: Eric had ordered a new exhaust elbow for the wing-engine that had arrived a few days ago. On Monday, he decided change the elbow. Once he began working on it, he realized the elbow couldn’t really be separated from the rest of the exhaust; the whole exhaust fitting needed to be replaced. So after cleaning up in the engine room, he spent some time trying to hunt down the full exhaust fitting replacement part. He found it at a supplier in Annapolis and made arrangements to pick it up when we go in Annapolis for the boat show.

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Keith’s Perspective on Baltimore and DC Museums and Memorials/Le point de vue de Keith sur les musées et les mémoriaux de Baltimore et Washington DC

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This week has been fun. On Saturday, we went to the marina pool. 

Cette semaine était amusante. Samedi nous sommes allés à la aupiscine de marina. 

On Sunday, we went to Washington DC by car just for the day. We saw a few of the monuments, and they were kind of boring. I learned that The Jefferson Monument is pretty far from the most popular monuments. We didn’t see the whole loop because dad and I were hungry and it was a long walk. After the monuments, we ate at a Shake Shack close to the marina that we’re going to stay in while we’re in DC. 

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More Exhibits at The National Aquarium in Baltimore, the Walk to Fell’s Point and Dinner at Verde

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Continued… As we’d noticed the day we’d visited the Historic Ships, the aquarium was housed in two separate buildings attached by a sky bridge. We wandered over to the skybridge to see what was in the other building. Here were the views from the bridge.

looking towards shore. In the Black Shark Reef exhibit, they’d stated that the aquarium had planted this marsh in 2024 as part of an effort to restore Baltimore’s critical marsh habitat
Looking at the harbor

The other side had a 4-D movie that was an additional fee and a stadium where it looked like they used to do dolphin shows.

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Breakfast at Simply Marie’s and the The Walk to the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland

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Friday, September 12 — This morning, Eric ran all the engines and water makers. He also changed the filters in the black water and grey water vent loops. Those filters are immensely helpful in controlling odors.

Before leaving for San Diego, we’d eaten all the fresh food aboard, so we had nothing for breakfast. We went to eat at an iconic Baltimorean southern restaurant called Simply Marie’s Breakfast Only, which was located in a tiny storefront near the Canton ferry stop. The tag line was no frills delicious homestyle breakfast, and our experience exactly match the tagline.

We had to eat quickly since we were trying to catch the next ferry to Locust Point. At Locust Point, we disembarked and caught another ferry over to downtown, which was also free.

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