When I attended Chessiecon in Timonium, Maryland in 2018 — where in addition to taking part in programing, I recorded conversations with Jo Walton and Stephen Kozeniewski for episodes of Eating the Fantastic — I didn’t stay at the official con hotel. Instead of the Red Lion, I used miles to get a room next door at the Red Roof Inn. And I haven’t thought of that hotel since.

Until earlier this evening, while watching the first episode of the HBO series We Own This City, during which a drug bust went down on the same side of hotel where I was staying!

In the screen grab above, you can see a SWAT team on the second floor approaching the suspect. I no longer remember my exact room number, only its general location, but in my memory, I was in the middle right of that first floor, maybe even staying in the room by which you can see the housekeeping cart parked.

I look forward to seeing whether the remaining five episodes take me back to any other Baltimore geography out of my past.