Lois in Annapolis -- June 1999

Lois in Annapolis. [2 kb]

Lois in Annapolis

June 24. We wake late at a motel outside Annapolis called Knight's Inn -- yet another of the motels I've checked into in the past few years that are run by east indians. We didn't get to bed till two-thirty last night. Lois's plane came in at BWI at ten-twenty, and we bobbed and circled around Annapolis for hours (Lois telling me all about her son's graduation from UC Santa Barbara a few days ago), before discovering where the motels were hidden.
Before checking out we eat a few of the big juicy Bing cherries Lois carried across the country, and then we go out in search of breakfast.

Lois in front of the Maryland Inn, at the intersection of Main street and Duke of Gloucester street. The inn was built in 1776, and eleven of the rooms that are still in use were used a decade later by members of the Continental Congress.

Lois at the Maryland Inn. We wanted to have lunch in the downstairs restaurant, which I think was called the Treaty of Paris Room, and were disappointed to be told we'd have to have reservations.
They were going to seat us in the genuine eighteenth-century pub down the hall, and that would have been lovely too. But, just as there probably were in the eighteenth century, there were smokers. So we moved on. We wound up eating at a sidewalk table outside Riordan's Saloon, down at the foot of Main street. .

After our lunch at Riordan's we wandered up Main street, looking in shop windows and seeing some wonderful paintings in a gallery.

At left, Lois pauses in an alley off Main street, with the Maryland state capitol looming up behind her. It's the oldest state capitol building still in use.

Below: shopping for postcards.

Lois shopping for postcards. .[15 kb]

At right: Lois in front of Saint Anne's Episcopal Church, right across the street from the Maryland Inn. The church was built in 1692, and King William III designated it his Chapel Royal.

Below: Sweet Lois, make me immortal with your Canon.

Lois taking photos. [15 kb]

We haven't seen very much, but the day has sped. I call Julie -- who is the real reason for this eastward peregrination -- hoping we'll be able to stop by to see her for an hour or so, but she says this is a bad day for her. So we get on the highway just as rush hour is starting and head out to see the Reeses in Winchester.

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