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[jazzfish]

Coming back from the beach we hit traffic on 95 north at about four o'clock, and I was just completely Done. I'd been planning on meeting up with Megan J-- and getting a lift to either the metro station or BWI, picking up a rental car at BWI, driving to Hunt Valley wherever that is, being wildly sociable for about four hours possibly more, then falling over on an air mattress in a hotel only to wake up the next morning and drive back to BWI to fly home. But I was exhausted, and headachey, and the prospect of fighting through DC traffic, even light DC traffic, seemed suddenly just too much to take.

So I hung out with Megan for a while and got dinner at a decent Mexican place near Springfield Mall Towne Centre, and now I'm at my parents' place for the night.

I have had a good-but-lonely time at the beach, playing games and seeing people I don't see nearly often enough. On Friday I went out and dozed in the sand for half an hour or so, because if you aren't sunburnt then no one will believe you were really at the beach. And talking with Megan was pleasant as always, and my folks and my niephlings are decent company, and I am very tired.

I am also very far behind on my internet reading. Anticipated catchup: mid next week, or possibly never.

(But probably mid next week.)

Comments

[thanate]

Sorry to miss you, not at all shocked to hear that driving way up here wasn't a great plan after all. (Hunt Valley is another two exits north of the Timonium fairgrounds on 83. If you're around next year, the con is moving to the inner harbor, so attainable by light rail from BWI. Techinically so is Hunt Valley, but it's the utter opposite end of the rail system.)

[jazzfish]

Oof. Yeah. Not driving that was definitely a good call.

I do remember Hunt Valley being on the end of the light rail! The last time we went (2006) our roommates came down from New York by train. I could have looked into doing that from and back to BWI, I guess. Oh well. Having it back in the Inner Harbour will be much more convenient if/when I decide to go next year.

[rebelsheart]

Was the Mexican place called El Paso and right across from a hotel?

[jazzfish]

I dunno about the hotel, but that's the one. It's back in that mess around the access-ramps to the mixing bowl from Old Keene Mill and Backlick, which prompted me to say "I know where we are but I have no idea how to get here."

[rebelsheart]

I miss that place. I lived a 10 minute walk from there before I moved out here.

It's a local chain. It's not as good as it was, but still better than the competition.

[jazzfish]

Understandable. It is an order of magnitude better than the Mexican we've been able to find up here. (Except for tacos; there's a tiny chain that does really really good tacos.)