The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore Part 2

Lion

Lemur

Okapi

Giraffe

Elephant

Warthog

Sitatunga

Ostrich

Addra Gazelle

Jaguar

Rhino

zoo review
 This zoo is small and overpriced.  If you walk out of this zoo instead of taking the tram, you walk by this area that its so run down.  You would think they would try to make it nicer instead it looks like a dump.  Plus the parking is horrible, I've never been to a zoo with such a crappy parking lot.

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Maryland Zoo in Baltimore Part 1

Penguins

Common Raven

Bald Eagle

Caribbean Flamingo

West African Crowned Crane

Demoiselle Crane

Polar Bear

Sitatunga (I think)

Chimpanzee

Colobus Monkey

 

statues at the baltimore zoo

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Columbus Zoo

I went to this zoo on july 11, 2015.  The zoo was cool, I saw most of the animals, and it was interesting.  I didn't go into the water park because I honestly never thought a zoo would have a water park, it looked cool.  I also got a triple a discount which was nice.

Detroit's gift

There’s a museum in the metro area of Detroit, that is special.  The museum is vast with huge interior and exterior parts of the museum.  Henry Ford would be proud of it since its named after him.  Yes, there is a big car section but theirs other stuff like a recreation of a colonial village.  If my memory serves me correct.

The highlight besides the cool stuff in the museum was when we got an order of fries.  My parents ordered a small and it was huge.  Two adults could easily be fed by it but in my family’s case, it fed all four of us.

During the trip we stopped and visited Detroit’s zoo… nice place.  If I have any memories about the zoo, I’ll write about them.  Since I currently can’t remember anything.

Henry Ford Museum Address - 20900 Oakwood, Dearborn, MI 48124

Detroit Zoo Address - 8450 W 10 Mile Rd, Royal Oak, MI 48067

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january d.c. trip

I went to Washington D.C on January 30^th here are my thoughts on that trip.

The drive to d.c. was one on which I couldn’t make up my mind because I had two restaurants in Maryland picked out and I kept switching my mind on that or whether I was just going to drive to the national zoo.  I was going to go to the boulevard diner in Dundalk Maryland which is really close to Baltimore Maryland. Then it was the iron rooster a restaurant in Annapolis Maryland.  I ended up driving to the Iron Rooster for lunch because I missed the turn for the exit to go to the diner.  I will write about each restaurant in separate posts.  I went to the diner for supper.

When I left the Iron Rooster in Annapolis, I decided to drive to the national zoo. In addition, I got gas before I left the city limits. 

The drive to the zoo was nice.  Driving in Washington was interesting.

When I got to the zoo (1pm) I parked in a parking lot, near the zoo and walked to the information.  I purchased a map for 3 dollars, seemed a little excessive to me.

The wind seemed to enjoy blowing as hard as possible.  I guess freezing my ass off in January at a free zoo seemed like the brilliant thing to do at the time.  A lot of the animals were outside the other ones were hiding.  I guess they were the smart ones.  I eventually decided to leave because I had no clue when the holocaust museum closed.  When I got to the zoo I decided to leave around 3pm.  So I walked around for over 40 minutes trying to find my car.  Paranoia is fun when your in an unfamiliar city.  When I got to my car I found out that it cost $22 to park at the zoo which seemed really excessive to me... free zoo... liar, liar, pants on fire.

When I left the zoo I drove to the holocaust museum and found free parking.  The museum is on the edge of the national mall.

This museum is powerful.  I remembered it from my senior trip in high school, so I decided years later to come back.  I don’t regret it one bit.  If you have never been there go to it.  When I was leaving I bought a book – the hiding place.

When I was driving home, I discovered that my gps system was really out of date and I think it’s one big reason why it took so long to get home.  I also got stuck behind an accident on the one freeway out of Washington dc.  I went maybe half a mile in a ninty minutes. 

I eventually made the turn for the Boulevard Diner which was on diners, drive-ins and dives – great show.  Yummy, yummy in my tummy…

I didin’t like the rest of the drive home because who likes a one lane highway?  I didn’t bother to try to get on a freeway.

When I got home I was exhausted.

Until next time America