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Originally Posted by h8kurdt

Oh! Sorry *belm* I hadn't planned of going to Baltimore but could easily persuaded. I could relive The Wire. A pasty white boy shouting "5-0 COMIN!" "RE-UP NEEDED!"

dc is “nice”but has been so gentrified it makes my soul puke. i’d send you places but all likely unrecognizable now.

also, in summer, dc is hordes and hordes of tourists. ugh! (youre not a tourist though, i can tell that about you lol)

however back in the day there was h.r. 57, a little nonprofit dedicated to jazz preservation. maybe still there? back in the day dc was a jazz town. had a jazz radio. lotsa jazz venues. i’d check to see.

i could spend weeks at the national gallery of art—both west (old) and east (modern) wings. plus the sackler and freer galleries. and the hirshhorn, sculpture gallery included. for a foreign visitor ofc the history museum, the nmai and the african american ones, and the holocaust... if you dare.

the beauty of smithsonian museums is not that theyre the greatest collections and most recent exhibits—it’s that they’re the nation’s attic and free of charge and open to the public (bag check required these days though)

but anywyay, baltimore is “real”and not chockful of lawyers and government employees who produce nothing but paperwork. baltimore has grit, and a working class, and a different atmosphere altogether, like... corner bars! no dc corner bars lolol. and yeah parts are dangerous. but a day/day-and-a-half visit is well worth the train ride +ubers.

maybe there’s nothing there and it’s just nostalgia talking (i spent one of my best summers ever there, so tasty and good). but no, i think bawlmor is something else for sure. catch it before the gentrifiers wreck it like they did new york.

oh also philly on the way? visit dee dennis mack and charlie and of course frank reynolds haaa haaa haa

philly is cool too has their “arts distict”and shit

also, cheesesteaks. mmmm cheesesteaks. and oh, hoagies, mamma mia...