Blogs from Maryland, United States, North America - page 50

Assateaque Island Last fall we traveled to Ocean City, MD. While there we visited Assateaque Island which is about 5-8 miles south of Ocean City. The island is now a nature preserve with many different type of occupants. One of the more well known is a small bred of horses that migrate from the island to the mainland every year in the fall. The horses seem to be a cross between a burro and horse and are extremely friendly. The only bad part of that is that they bite Along with the horses; there are deer, rabbits, a wide variety of birds and tourists. On one side of the island there is the bay which has a totally different variety than the other side of the island. The ocean side of the island is how beaches ... read more

On Day 3 we drove through Georgetown, one of the surrounding DC neighborhoods, on the way to Annapolis. What a cute area! With it’s beautiful old houses and neat shops, restaurants and cafes lining the main street, this is definitely an area that we would like to come back to when we have more time. This time though it’s just a quick drive through on our way to Annapolis, the capital of Maryland. We got to our hotel by 12.30, checked in and hit the streets. The historic downtown and harbour area was easy walking distance from our hotel and we were able to cover all the main attractions in one afternoon. Unfortunately it happened to be a very hot afternoon so we had to break up our outdoor walking with lots of visits to air-conditioned ... read more

Well, it's been a few days now, and I'm really enjoying myself. I've got a sweet set-up with some friends in the area--though I decided to crash with them at last minute, they still were able to accomodate me in my own room. I'm planning lots of trips because I'm not sure when I'll have this opportunity again, after all keeping track of all the humans at work is quite demanding! Give my love to Victoria. I'm sure she misses me (just as much as I miss her!), but I'm OK and wouldn't trade this opportunity for anything.... read more

After way too long in airplanes and airports I made it home again. With very little sleep and no showers. Good times...I'll hopefully get some pictures up sometime soon. Thanks for reading!... read more

in only 22 more days (not including today) james, dan, and i will be off to europe for a glorious 8 weeks. james and i have never gone abroad like this before, but dan has been living in antigua by himself for the last several months, so i feel safer having him around. our plan is to fly into stansted airport in london from dulles airport in virginia. we'll spend a few days in london, mosey on over to paris, then madrid and barcelona, etc etc. we have a basic idea of the cities we'd like to visit, but not actual locations within the cities... i enjoy not having a strict itinerary to follow. hopefully it'll make things interesting. we'd like to make our way all over europe by working in a rough counter-clockwise circle. hopefully ... read more