Trips of Discovery

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Category: Maryland

Log Canoe Racing. Photo: Courtesy of CBMM

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Have fun planning a visit to the historic town of St. Michaels, Maryland, while you’re flattening the curve of coronavirus

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes – *SBFL 8 – PLANNED – It may feel surreal reading a travel blog such as mine about trips, coastal living, and boating in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic that we’re currently in. Let’s face it, social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It will upend our way of life, in some ways forever. One of our social obligations is to help flatten the curve of it, as much as we can. However, let’s also hope that with every passing year, humanity, and especially politicians, makes sure that history doesn’t repeat itself.  An eerie blueprint of the events and the echoing cries...

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Visit a mixing bowl of distant past and vibrant present – Annapolis, Maryland

A historic city as seen from the eyes of Jeff Fleming, a brilliant young Chesapeake Bay photo artist and photojournalist  … Estimated Reading Time: 16 minutes – SBFL* 6 – PLANNED and VISITED – If you have never visited or have not been there lately by land or water to one of the jewels of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (ICW), you really should.  I am talking about the “Town at Proctor’s,” later called the “Town at the Severn,” and much later renamed “Anne Arundel’s Towne.” It was finally renamed “Annapolis” by the third Royal Governor of Maryland, Francis Nicholson after he moved the capital of the royal colony. He renamed the town Annapolis after Princess...

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Plan to visit Sultana this summer in Chestertown

Estimated Reading Time: 15 minutes – I want you to imagine a magical trip, on the water, where you are having incredible experiences. It is summer, you are a kid on a 1768 schooner, with all sails up. You just left Chestertown and the Chester River on Maryland’s upper Eastern Shore, and are gently sailing down the Chesapeake Bay. I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid (which was a very, very long time ago), I would have given anything to be able to be a part of that trip, be it in 1768 or now in the 2000s. If you have a kid in your life or in your heart, this...

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Awesome undertakers, barbers, repairmen, hunters and $1,144,600

This is Part 2 of the previous blog post – A general, bushwacking, body booting and $1,144,600 send me to Crisfield, Maryland. … Estimated Reading Time: 12 minutes – SBFL 3* – VISITED – Regardless of how you look at it, my story started, without exaggeration, a few thousand years ago, honestly.  Definitely not the $1,444,600 part, but the need to build and use some kind of decoy to lure ducks to hunt them has been around in North America at least 2,000 years. I will let Rob Buchanan of Sports Illustrated tell you that part of the story in his 1985 article, “When it came to duck decoys, the Paiute Indians made them to...