Crabcakes on the Harbor!

Baltimore has long been one of my favorite cities. When I was a kid, we went to baltimore almost every summer to see my favorite sports team, the baltimore orioles. I still remember the "perfect" lineup: don buford, paul blair, frank robinson, boog powell, brooks robinson, davey johnson, elrod hendricks, mark belanger, and the pitcher, which could be dave mcnally, jim palmer or mike cuellar. I've still got lots of memorabilia (and memories) from those games in memorial stadium.

Of course, times change. The team eventually moved to their fancy new stadium, camden yards, and they've become the worst team that money can buy. I lost interest in baseball after the 94 strike, and it's never been the same. (But check out my camden yards pics from the inaugural season and my more recent orioles 2007 pics.)

Recently I've discovered crabcakes, and baltimore has some of the tastiest morsels around. So once again, it's one of my favorite cities. While the inner harbor is the tourist magnet, those in the know head on over to fells point, which is much more authentic and without the generic mall feel of harborplace.

And now baltimore has the ravens, my new football team. (I was also a baltimore colts fan growing up. As you can imagine, I lost interest in football about equal to that of baseball.)

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In the summer of 2001 we traveled to ocean city and annapolis for some crab crackin' and hangin' out on the beach. Check out our itinerary and our pics of ocean city outdoors, the ocean city food, and annapolis harbor!

For thanksgiving 2004, we started in alexandria and mount vernon and ended up in annapolis. Also be sure to check out my annapolis 2004 pics.