Campbell Adventure: BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, USA-MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4. 2013

BALTIMORE is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland and the 26th largest city in the country. This deep water port, nestled at the north of the huge Chesapeake Bay is 190 miles from the Atlantic and has always been a busy commercial crossroad and its still one of the principal Atlantic seacoast outlets for coal, grain and spice.
We went on a half-day outing introducing us to this charming city. We went to the Baltimore World Trade Center, a structure designed by I.M. Pei and is the world’s tallest equilateral five-sided building and went to the 27th floor “Top of the World” Observation Deck. The views were incredible.
Next was historic FORT HENRY, a star-shaped fort situated at the harbor’s entrance. It was here, during the War of 1812, that Washington lawyer Francis Scott Key saw the American flag emerge intact in the September dawn after a continuous 25 hour British bombardment. He was so moved that he wrote the poem, The Defence of Fort McHenry”, which would later become the United States’ national anthem “The Star-Spangled Banner.” We saw a reenactment of the war and then the screen disappeared and we saw the FLAG outside. It was quite moving.