Pictures of Jerusalem

We didn’t get to do a ton of sightseeing on this trip. We work 7 days a week when we’re away, and only get out and about occasionally, and for just a few hours at a time. Before we came home though, we did get a full day to do nothing but touristy stuff in […]

Pictures of Haifa

…And we’re back. Did you miss us Baltimore? We sure missed you. We came home a week ago and are just now getting settled in. The past 7 days have been a constant tightrope walk of balancing the desire to accomplish as many necessary tasks as possible and wanting to satisfy our need to sit […]

Crazy Ray’s: A Museum of the Modern American Road

If Baltimore is a city sometimes known to celebrate the bizarre, the unusual and all things on the fringes, we’d posit that there may be no more bizarre place in the city than Crazy Ray’s auto parts on Erdman Avenue. An automotive “graveyard” might be an apt description of the yard at Crazy Ray’s, although […]

The Chop Returns From Ascension Island

Okay, so we actually returned from Ascension a week ago. We’ve been keeping it low key ever since. We haven’t fully been back in the swing of things since we’re just now getting our internet connection and cable re-installed. It’s troubling how bored we’ve been this past week without them, especially since we didn’t have […]