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Should have posted this earlier, and on a day when there would be higher traffic.

Tomorrow I am going on a road trip through the eastern shore. Trying to stay away from 50, 113 and 1. A friend of mine said she'll meet me for breakfast tomorrow at a place right over the MD line off of Rte 1, and then I plan on driving to Chesapeake City. Other than some nice views, is there really anything to do there? Fishing, good food, maybe one or two drinks is fine for me. I don't plan on going much farther south, might go up to Lancaster or Chambersburg after a quick stop at home for a cooler refill. Not just knife shops etc, just anything to do. It looks like a pretty dull town, so places in DE, maybe NJ after I go over the 295 bridge, nothing that deep into NJ. I had a plan in mind for tomorrow, but I'm just drawing a blank. Thanks guys, I wish I would have posted this sooner. Prefer to stay away from major highways, don't want to deal with the people returning from the shore points.
 
I think I can have a good time there, thanks for the site info. Chesapeake Citys webpage looked pretty dull. What town needs 5 knick knack stores?
 
Well, Sunday I went to breakfast at a great hole in the wall restaurant in Nottingham PA called the Old Post House. Great omelettes. Then drove down 213 to Chesapeake City, got there about ten am, decided to just keep on driving. Nice scenery at first, but there was nothing down there. Oh yeah, I saw houses, and there was a fair amount of cars out, but nothing to stop in. A few gas stations, thats about it. When I got to Chestertown, there were some strip malls, interested in stopping in a True Value to look at their knife selection, but just kept on going. Stopped at a couple of marinas to watch the boats come in, other than that, I drove all the way down to Centreville, about five miles north of the Bay Bridge. I decided to go back up Rte 301, and that was dead too. Finally got back to Chesapeake City, and the south section of town (Chesapeake and Delaware canal chopped the town in half back in the 1800's), was packed. No parking spaces, so I went over the bridge to the north side of town, and stopped at Schaefers Canal House. Got the best crabcake I've ever had, although it was pretty small for what I'm used to, a couple beers, and flirted with the waitresses. Watched one of the big Corellian ships come through, thought it would take the bridge out! I sat at the outside bar and just watched all the boats go by, and read some freebie marine newspapers. After I left there, I drove down the wonderful Rte 40 :rolleyes: :barf: , and picked up some pizzas for the family. I did see a knife shop on 40, they were closed, but they looked like they might actually carry some good brand name knives. Did meet up with a couple friends at a bar on Rte 40, got my truckers tan, errr, make that truckers sun burn on my left arm.
 
If you ever get down that way again, keep going down to Easton, Maryland. The Quaker Meeting House there is the oldest continuously used religious structure north of St. Augustine, Florida. It was known as Third Haven Meeting and is part of the subject of James Michener's novel, Chesapeake. There are also a number of very nice seafood restaurants in the town.
 
It's been a long time since I've gone through Easton, I prefer to stick to Delaware, but I think I'll check out Easton when I go down the Ayshun ;) .

Speaking of books related to the DelMarVa, have you read any of Ed Okonowicz's books? I have several of his, and really enjoyed them. More of a history lesson than horror, I've learned a lot of folklore and a lot about eastern shore locations. Heres his site. Even though the city itself has gone way down hill, I still go to spend some time with my large family, in Ocean City. They go down for two weeks, I spend a long weekend down there. Anyway, on 129th st, I think, headed south on Coastal Highway, past the Hooters (one landmark I remember), there is a News Center, they usually have a good selection of Ed's books. Ed doesn't really write horror, but he is a great storyteller.



http://www.mystandlace.com/ed.html

Oh yeah, Ed writes for the Nor'easter, a pretty good freebie marine publication. By marine, I don't mean Marine, I mean a boating newspaper, it covers the eastern shore, basically most of the DelMarVa peninsula.

http://www.noreastermagazine.com/index_MSIE.html

Ed Okonowicz ~ Folklore, ghost stories, disappearing occupations and
customs of the DelMarVa Peninsula—plus unusual and interesting
people—are the subjects of Ed Okonowicz’s books and articles. He
and his wife, Kathleen,own Myst and Lace Publishers Inc


And heres a link to the NewsCenters site

http://www.ocean-city.com/newscenter.htm
 
As I enjoy Rita Mae Brown's books set in the Piedmont and the Blue Ridge of Virginia. Her mysteries "co-written" with her cat, Sneaky Pie Brown, are frequently too cute by a half, but the description of Virginia small town life is excellent as are her generally libertarian viewpoints. Her "Sister" mysteries are very much better and rather less cute. But her best was Riding Shotgun, as in "Riding Shotgun to History", when her heroine slips through a time warp on a fox hunt in 1999 Virginia and winds up back in 1699 Virginia. Great sense of what life was like in the colonial period. I loved it when she appears on a Thoroughbred, a breed which was developed beginning in the early 18th Century, and the men all gather around trying to figure out just what kind of a horse this is. It would be as if you were to take a current model Ferrari Enzo or Corvette C-6 back in time to the 1930s or even the 1950s. It would be instantly recognizable as a car, but it would astound the locals who would not understand it.
 
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