In Baltimore we stayed at a swanky high-rise hotel on the Inner Harbour. Even though we weren’t on the highest floor, we were pretty high up. The friendly check-in clerk at the hotel turned out to be a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, as am I, and he spent a little time on the computer in order to figure out how to give us a room with a view.
BTW, the driver of the ground transportation we took down to Baltimore had graduated from Stanford, just like Chris had. Alumni moments all around that day. 😉
Here are some photos I took out of our window that week: daytime, nighttime and nighttime in a thunderstorm. The big row of bright lights across the way in the evening photos is the baseball stadium; in the daytime, the stadium doesn’t stand out from the stuff around it nearly as much.
Anyway, see what you think of our room with a view. 😉
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- Baltimore Inner Harbor, June 2014
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- Nighttime at the Inner Harbor, Baltimore, June 2014
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- Thunderstorm, Baltimore, June 2014
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- Thunderstorm, Baltimore, June 2014 – variation on the previous photo
Nice! Baltimore never looked so good, even by day! The nighttime thunderstorm shots are really something.
And I’m sorry, did I catch you saying that a Stanford graduate was the driver of your van? Let’s hope he doesn’t have student loans to pay off.
Thanks, Will. Yes, the driver (not in a van, but for a town car service we used to get from NJ to Baltimore) was a retired investment banker who drives for this company on occasion as something to do to get out of the house. In the football season, he also works as ref for the SEC, too. Interesting guy, fun to chat with. He played football for Stanford, too, but I don’t remember when he graduated (sometime in the ’70s, maybe).
Investment banker, that’s more like it!
But what about the Hopkins graduate working at the front desk?
Thanks for the question, Dovie. What I recall is that he was a musician who had also studied in Italy at one point. But he said he developed a career-ending problem with stage fright. I think he was probably in his 30s now. He was pleasant and had very good taste in food (he wrote out a list of recommendations for us). I don’t know if he’s making it a career at the hotel, though – we didn’t chat for all that long. 😉