Thursday, May 19, 2011

Solo Road Trip, Day One: Asheville to Baltimore


On the Road: Traveling on 26 West through cloud-covered mountains on Wednesday, May 18 at 8 a.m. Driving through North Carolina, Tennessee and Virgina was absolutely beautiful. Fields of yellow grass and red poppies, cows, barns, rolling mountains in the distance and a long, empty highway ahead.

                           Washington Traffic: I spent over an hour in this madness.


Welcome to Baltimore! After nine hours in the car, my right leg was numb, I smelled like sweat and peanut-butter pretzels and had a terrible headache. City traffic didn't help. Total miles: 520.



Reunion with my dear friend Jessica Alderman who just finished a masters in Public Health, focusing on Health Communication and Behavior Change Communication, at Johns Hopkins. Baltimore is a strange city: University dominated, racially segregated, no grocery stores anywhere (a "food desert" as Jessica describes) and crab-meat crazy.

                                                                     Fell's Point



                                                              Domino's Sugars

2 comments:

  1. Beautiful blog! I finally emailed you back. Hope to see you this weekend?

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  2. there's only one place on earth that I know that has worse traffic than the DC beltway... Haywood road in W. Asheville at 5pm!

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