Meandering the Country

September 19-26, 2022 Cherry Hill Park was home for this stop and we highly recommend it!  It’s been owned by the same family since 1921 and they clearly know what they are doing! Keeping the roof spick and span! First off, location, location, location, right?  The campground is located 18 miles from Washington DC, 29 miles from Annapolis, 28 miles from Baltimore, and 25 miles from Alexandria, Virginia.  Each of these are all very easy day trips that we couldn’t resist! Our 10-year-old granddaughter, Eva was so excited to hear we were going to be in Maryland!  The very first thing she said when she learned we were going there was, “You should go to Fort McHenry .  It’s where Francis Scott Key wrote the Star-Spangled Banner!” Eva's school had just celebrated the birthday of the Star Spangled Banner and she clearly understood the lesson! Well, with that ringing endorsement, Baltimore’s Fort McHenry promptly went on our agenda!  The fort is both a National ...

September 12-19, 2022 Murderkill River We saw a T-shirt that read “Dela-where?” that we thought was funny as the actual boundary lines of Delaware have an interesting story.  Delaware is located within the Delmarva Peninsula, which also includes a portion of Maryland and Virginia.  Apparently, Delaware was once part of Pennsylvania, owned by William Penn.   It was largely settled by the Dutch and the Swedes in the late 1600’s and was referred to as the “Three Lower Counties on the Delaware”. Each of these three counties continues to have its distinct flavor.  The northern county, New Castle County, is known for its history. The central county, Kent County, is loved for its great outdoors, and the southern county, Sussex County, is famous for its beaches.  In 1776, these Three Lower Counties on the Delaware signed their own Declaration of Independence from Great Britain and from Pennsylvania several weeks before enactment of the United States Declaration of ...