Day Four: another Superman statue at Geppi’s Entertainment Museum.
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: we guided you through our seven-day trip to Baltimore, Maryland, in forty-four episodes —- July 8-14, 2017, with stops along the way at two Civil War battlefields and a series of smaller but no less intriguing sights by the roadside.
Here in our penultimate chapter: a selection of additional exhibits from the museums, national parks, and other historical organizations we visited. We took plenty of pictures everyplace, but a few images didn’t make the final cut until just now. If you’ve missed any chapters in the series, this and the season finale will give you hints of what you missed. Enjoy!
DAY THREE:
Francis Scott Key and a star-spangled banner at Fort McHenry.
Crew quarters are the last stop on the tour of the USCGC Taney, one of the four Historic Ships of Baltimore.
DAY FOUR:
Inexplicable duck and elaborate playground from the American Visionary Art Museum.
The American Visionary Art Museum also features the most decorated men’s room stall I’ve ever seen.
The AVAM’s lunchbox display included this vintage Superman edition that li’l Anne either had or wished she had.
Three Stooges memorabilia sent to go stand in a corner at Geppi’s Entertainment Museum.
Also part of the Steve Geppi collection: the California Raisins!
Alternate angle of the indoor waterfall at the National Aquarium.
At the end of the National Aquarium tour path is a kiosk where guests can post random messages into the uncaring watery void using a terrible interface with an extremely limited preset vocabulary. Coherent results were next to impossible. Line 2 is mine.
DAY FIVE:
Another selection of jazz legends celebrated at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture. What distinguishes this set from the one I previously shared is that I’m an ignoramus who doesn’t know any of these three talented women.
How I compare to the actual stars-and-stripes heights at the Star-Spangled Banner House & Museum.
DAY SIX:
Anne was first to reach the welcoming elephant at Mister Ed’s Elephant Museum & Candy Emporium.
Mister Ed’s also includes dozens of non-pachyderm peculiarities such as this cat with goggles because he can.
DAY SEVEN:
Lego Simpsons hiding in one of the larger dioramas at the Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum.
Also on Kruger Street: residents from the wonderful world of McDonaldland, giving me flashbacks to my first job.
We have more outtakes from the Unofficial Lego Toy & Plastic Brick Museum than from any other stops on this vacation. I really didn’t feel like dragging out this series with three extra chapters of random Lego constructs, so their large-scale Lego poker game will have to do for now.
To be concluded!
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