My Baltimore Experience: A Day In The Life

All along I've been wanting to post pictures of my true Baltimore experience. True meaning, what I lived through everyday. I couldn't do this from the beginning because I didn't want to post pictures of where I lived for obvious reasons. But now, I can totally do that. Everything I have posted so far has been pretty touristy and not so much "day in the life", so that's why I've wanted to do this.

However, I have found that it is much harder than I thought it would be to capture the "true experience" in photographs. Much of Baltimore I didn't want to pull out my camera in. Maybe I just didn't stay there long enough to become comfortable. Maybe I just stay safe. Either way, I don't have complete photo documentation. Regardless, I will now post what I do have, and provide appropriate captions.

So below is my ATTEMPT to provide what is, what I consider, my daily life in Baltimore (outside of laboratory, because I already did a blog post on that :) )


These benches are ALL over Baltimore. Every single bench in Baltimore has these words on it: "Baltimore The Greatest City in America". By the time I left Baltimore, I truly believed what it said. This bench may be the best looking of all the benches that I ever saw in the entire city (it's right by Kate and Meredith's house). All the other benches are pretty...ghetto to say the least and I most likely would have gotten my camera stolen if I would have pulled it out. (Okay, maybe it's not THAT bad, but some of them are!)

MY APARTMENT:


Charles Towers. I lived in the one on the left.


The plaza to the entrance of the towers.


The front entrance to my apartment tower


View #2


Me and Kevin, one of the guys who works at the front desk at the apartments. I wrote about him before, he's the one who sings and has a CD out and is going to be famous :)


The door to my apt., #505


My bedroom. Yes. That IS an air mattress. Yes. That IS all that clothes that is brought and wore all summer.


My bookshelf and pictures of my family.


The other side of my bedroom (sorry, bad pic)


My herbs that I grew from FHE! Yes! There IS life in a little apt. in downtown Baltimore!!


Another view


A picture out my bedroom window. This window faces west towards Lexington Market (dun dun dunnn....). Pretty much every night I could look down and there would be homeless people sleeping on that street below by the bus stop. And yes. I would frequent that bus stop.


Our living room (aka Megan's bedroom)


The dining room


A view South West from the dining room


A view south from the dining room


The SMALL little kitchen :)






The bathroom. It kind of reminded me of a hotel sometimes.




Hallway entrance.


View #2.


The door to the trash chute


The trash chute for my floor


The elevators for my floor


The mail room


My mailbox. #505. I checked it obsessively for mail daily.


TRANSPORTATION:


The Hopkins Shuttle. This is how I got to work everyday.


The Charm City Circulator. It's free for everyone. That means you can find anyone and everyone on it. It's fabulous.

I wish I would have thought to capture a shot of the MTA...


CHARLES STREET

I walked up and down this street multiple times daily (I DID live on it after all). So why not take a few pics of it?


The intersection where my apartment is at. Charles and Saratoga.


A view up Charles Street. Right where I would walk everyday to get to work. Or anywhere else I would need to go most likely.


A classic row of shops on Charles Street.


Another view up Charles


Pretty much the best picture I have ever taken. This near the Washington Monument (the old one in Baltimore, not the one in DC) circle. That's an old church in the back ground. I love the stone road, and the church in the background. The sign on the post is one for the Mt. Vernon district, which is the neighborhood I lived in (or right on the border of technically). It's one of the nicer neighborhoods in Baltimore. This is right where the shuttle would drop me off after work every day, by the Peabody music school.