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Nothing special, this is just my third effort at writing a blog about my life and what goes on in it: Hobbies, cooking, work, maybe the occasional book or DVD review, and so forth. Nothing really noteworthy, but this is sort of a little subset of my world...

Monday, March 23, 2009

Safely (?) in Delaware...

We had little problem getting out of Baltimore. The light traffic is still holding up, and the fact that we were leaving at almost eight in the evening local time helped out quite a bit, I'm sure. Aside from having to pay a couple of hellacious tolls, including something like $6.00 just to cross the Susquehanna River, we didn't really have any problems on the drive. Unfortunately, with it being dark and because it came up on us fairly quickly, I wasn't able to get a good shot of the Welcome to Delaware sign:
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It only took us about an hour to get from Baltimore to Wilmington. Because we were both pretty tired, we decided it was far enough for the night, and we headed off the freeway to find a place to sleep. Of course, the exit which we chose pretty much at random was right in the not-so-great part of town. We stopped alongside a street and while I was looking on the laptop for where the main motel zone was located, the girlfriend got a bit of alarm in her voice and said that some guy walking down the street had just turned around and was walking toward us. Considering that it looked like it wouldn't have been surprising to see drug deals going on within yards of us, we decided to head on and try to find something from a little nicer parking place. I kept looking as we drove down the road, and we found a little motel row off one of the other freeways through town.

We're now staying at the Rodeway Inn here on the south end of Wilmington. I think we're technically in another town, maybe New Castle, but I'm not positive. There are a ton of little notices in the lobby of the motel, for various different fees that they'll charge for different things like early check-in, late check-out, or even wanting to get towels after 2:00. And, if you don't report problems with your room within ten minutes of checking in, they say the sale is basically final and they won't do anything to fix it. Fortunately, things seem to be all right, so we're going to retire for the night...

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