Blogs from Ocean City, Maryland, United States, North America

For our first full day in Ocean City, we definitely wanted to hit the beach. We got up fairly early, packed up our beach stuff, and headed out. We ran across some traffic heading towards the island and on the island itself, but it honestly wasn't too bad. We did make the mistake of going to a Dunkin right after the bridge, and had to wait in a line for twenty minutes or so. It would have been much smarter to go through the drive through at the one in Berlin, so lesson learned. We stayed in the middle of the island and avoided the boardwalk end. We found the parking to be free in this area, and I'm sure the beaches were less crowded as well. We ran across the busy road carrying our beach ... read more

Long in the tooth are the days of frolicking businessmen or prim and proper women on the shores of Ocean City. What started as a "Ladies' Resort to the Ocean" is now a doormat to hordes of Spring Breakers and Senior Week graduates looking for a memorable time, albeit short on the memory part. When entrepreneur Isaac Coffin built the first beach-front cottage in 1869 to receive paying customers, it was unlikely he foresaw what was to be: a sprawling metropolis with its heyday from the 1950s to 70s. This seaside town may no longer play among the ranks of Martha's Vineyard or Nantucket for Wall Street executives, and probably can't even compete with the less snooty OBX and Myrtle Beach, but it still packs a punch. Like its sister city, Virginia Beach, Ocean City caters ... read more

250,000 marlin fishing families can't be wrong about Ocean City. They're all here enjoying the fishing tournament event of the year. We came here on a 27 hour outside, night passage from Norfolk. It was one of those rock'n roll specials that make you wonder why on earth you ever thought boating was a sane choice for humans. At one point I thought of our crew as two gerbils and a mouse trapped in a jar, being shaken by an energetic godling, perhaps mad at his mother. Early on in the passage we were doing 7+ knots with only the main up, reefed 2 panels. The sail came down in case conditions got worse. They did and they didn't. Nice organized waves turned to compound, complex pounding swells of the grand-daddy version. They came in threes. ... read more

September 21-24th 2009 The beginning of this week I got to experience going to Delmarva, which is Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. Lance and I traveled together and I got to learn a lot and see a lot and gain lots of experience. We first landed in Washington Dulles. We drove to Ocean City, MD. It was a nice little city on a beach. We went to experience the Boardwalk in Ocean City. It was about a 2mile boardwalk with different shops. However, we were there on a Monday night and it seemed like a ghost town. The second day, we got up to go training in Selbyville, DE. Small little towns where everyone seems to work at Mountaire. We even saw bus loads of people get dropped off to work there. We trained there till about ... read more