I'm not sure what to expect with the Hill Climb, but Kim Shirer in the tourism office assures me this is a great weekend to be in Western Maryland. Looking forward to the Friday after Five Festival in the Historic District when I get there.
Here's a video I found of a previous Hill Climb It looks like a gas, but I wouldn't try any of those mountain curves in the Junquemobile.
Here's something else revving our engines: it looks like the Indy Racing League is close to sanctioning an annual race on a 2.4-mile street course around the Inner Harbor and stadiums. With this encouragement, and the matter before Baltimore City Council on Monday, it's possible these open wheeled racers could be coming to Camden Yards (we'd be a major staging area) in 2011.
Even if daredevil drivers and careening cockpits aren't your thing, look at it this way: the street course will be repaved to the smoothness of glass (which will help the evening commute) and the visitors it will bring over a four day period (plus the weeks of staging) will have a tremendous positive impact on the regional economy. Plus, the media coverage will showcase Baltimore and its assets at their most beautiful.
I'm stoked. Hope you are, too. Now, off to the mountains!
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