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Antietam and Gettysburg Civil War Battlefields

I’ve always been terrible with geography and in my mind the Civil War was fought in the deep South – Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and certainly many battles were fought there.  What didn’t quite register was that  Antietam (which had…

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A Serendipitous DelMarVa Detour

After about a week in Delaware’s portion of the DelMarVa peninsula, we headed towards Maryland and the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, which has eighty-one 5-star reviews online! The route took us through Cambridge Maryland and a roadside reader board…

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DelMarVa-lous!

From Annapolis MD, we headed northeast into Delaware, camped at Lums Pond State Park and turned our attention to some planning.  We’d planned the details through Washington DC, so it was time to get more serious about the second…

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Sailin’ Through Annapolis

We only had part of an afternoon to drive through Annapolis MD, but it was nice to do anyway.  Annapolis is synonymous with the US Naval Academy and it could have been because we were there in late May…

Scenic Cycling Travel

DelMarVa and 2 Maryland Flight Centers

One thing that’s interesting about eastern state campgrounds that is different from most western state campgrounds is that they are often within just a few miles of urban areas, but because of the density of the hardwood trees in…