[May 2001 journal entry]
To get to Philadelphia – where I gave two presentations for the Jefferson College of Medicine Obstetrics and Gynecology Department – in the least expensive way, I flew to Baltimore and then took an Amtrak train to Philadelphia. I retraced this route to return home. As the trains passed through Baltimore, Philadelphia, and smaller cities in between, I was struck by the miles and miles of desperate/dilapidated living conditions that are visible from the train but hidden by the street-front facades.
