Though the Inner Harbor is the... by richiecdisc
Though the Inner Harbor is the city?s calling card, try and escape this limited area and enjoy the many neighborhoods that surround it like Little Italy, Fells Point and lesser known ones like Mount Vernon.I had recently become single and in need of some diversion. My brother and his fiancé told me to come visit them in Baltimore for the weekend; it was the Freakness Festival, a music/beer filled street party to mirror the city?s more famous horse race, the Preakness. It was a glorious weekend, the sun shone brightly on Broadway in Fells Point, and the masses descended in even greater waves than would normally on the already popular weekend spot. Though there were trucks dispensing good micro brews, we opted to stop in Max?s for one of their many beers on tap. We got a spot at the empty bar and just as we did, a huge thunderstorm drove what seemed like half the festival into the bar, raising our real estate value considerably. We had a fun few hours inside drinking Rodenbach on tap and meeting lots of locals and tourists alike who needed to go through us to get a beer. When the rain subsided, we made our way back outside for the live music on hand. There were lots of local bands and I soon found myself gravitating away from my cohorts and towards the front of the stage, arriving front and center by the time the headliners, the Spin Doctors, were set to go on. The show was great and I found myself dancing with a girl from Annapolis. My brother, Bob, later loved to detail how he watched the show, often seeing my head pop up from the masses like the top of a pogo stick. As the show wound down, it was time for the crowd to disperse, and soon there was a mass of people running down the street as if chased by a tidal wave. Bob and his Janet were far up the street, having left before the end of the show, and he said, all he saw was a mass of people coming up Broadway, with me out front, enacting the running of the bulls. There would be no girl from Annapolis for me that night, but there would be no horns either. I made it safely to them and the waiting car.
