Friday, August 18, 2006
I COULD KICK MYSELF
We had an out of town visitor at work today. He got done around noon, and his ride was about to leave for the airport to drop him off. He lamented that he would have nothing to do until his flight at 7:00 p.m. I know BWI has been built up a lot recently, particularly the Southwest wing, but it’s still an airport and not an entertainment center. All I could do was commiserate with him and send him on his way.
Thirty seconds after he left I realized I should have told him to hop on the Light Rail at the BWI stop and ride it to the Inner Harbor and hang out there for a few hours. He would have had to watch his time, and there might have been a matter of dealing with his luggage and procuring his boarding pass, but the point is I didn’t even think to suggest it.
Sure, there are other destinations accessible by Light Rail that he would have found enjoyable, but the Inner Harbor is the simplest and most obvious. One of the reasons I started this blog was to shout out about Baltimore, and it doesn’t occur to me to give some plain advice to a tourist? I suppose he will be hanging around the airport, and so he might discover the light rail on his own, and if he’s adventurous he might explore it anyway.
But probably not.
Dang.
We had an out of town visitor at work today. He got done around noon, and his ride was about to leave for the airport to drop him off. He lamented that he would have nothing to do until his flight at 7:00 p.m. I know BWI has been built up a lot recently, particularly the Southwest wing, but it’s still an airport and not an entertainment center. All I could do was commiserate with him and send him on his way.
Thirty seconds after he left I realized I should have told him to hop on the Light Rail at the BWI stop and ride it to the Inner Harbor and hang out there for a few hours. He would have had to watch his time, and there might have been a matter of dealing with his luggage and procuring his boarding pass, but the point is I didn’t even think to suggest it.
Sure, there are other destinations accessible by Light Rail that he would have found enjoyable, but the Inner Harbor is the simplest and most obvious. One of the reasons I started this blog was to shout out about Baltimore, and it doesn’t occur to me to give some plain advice to a tourist? I suppose he will be hanging around the airport, and so he might discover the light rail on his own, and if he’s adventurous he might explore it anyway.
But probably not.
Dang.
# posted by Renfield @ 11:21 AM 
