Picture of one of the many bridges at Fredericks MD.
Funny that though we have "mostly" gotten the timing of meals on East Coast Time, and we are going to bed at a reasonable time, we are still waking up on West coast time... :) Hard to get out of bed much before 9:30 or so, and when check out is at 11, and we're deeply entrenched, well suffice it to say that at 10:59 we were rolling out of the lot...
Stopped at a Costco along the way to restock on some snacks, and found out, to our great frustration, that they have discontinued carrying some of the organic stuff that we like. Still managed to buy more than enough, and now can't fit all the oatmeal packs in the main cabin... Space is an eternal issue. Smaller RV certainly is nice for driving and parking, but starting to regret a little having not bought a few more feet. The reality is that we probably would have just brought more stuff - that whole "perfect gas law" thing... Many rigs out there are the class A beasts, pushing 40 ft or so - but at $200k plus, and 6MPG or worse, a tough pill to swallow. Also funny that they generally have few small windows, which are typically covered. These things are like caves on wheels. I don't understand why they don't at least want to see what is outside when they are traveling?
Headed up to Fredericks MD to tour around. A really beautiful place, great "small town" action. Very active art scene, lots of galleries and good food joints. Picture above is on one of the many bridges that cross the stream that goes through the center of town. Many kitschy cool little shops - wooden toys, old hardware stores, places that sell what look like pin-up versions of fairies, etc. Spent a couple hours exploring (as much as B could do), and then back on the road to Harper's Ferry West Va (just on the boarder, and only 20 minutes from Fredericks).
Harpers Ferry has many stories - including one of mine, where as kid, when we visited as family in the van, I had gotten sick (as I recall, eating too many apple jolly rancher candies), and so when we got there, I wasn't doing too well. One version of the story in my vague memory says that this was one of the rare places that the family actually got to eat out, and my poor timing meant I didn't get to. In any event, for some reason, I was drawn back here. We got to the National Park HQ just a few minutes before closing, so just wandered around for a while, then drove the area exploring for a bit. Some beautiful spaces - a barn that obviously hadn't been opened for years. Sets me to wondering - what was the story here? When the farmer closed the barn for the last time, did he or she know that it was to be the last time? Did they sell their heard? Was there an accident? Did they just sell the farm? Interesting that the mundane act of closing a door could, in that instance be a fork in the road - a change in the destiny of a space...
There really weren't any good places to eat around Harpers Ferry, so we went back to Fredericks for dinner. Had fun parking the RV in the cramped roads (and more fun extracting it afterwards). Had a nice (albeit expensive) dinner at an Indian place, and hit the road. We are trying to "eat out" only one meal a day, and do the RV food other meals. Most days that works pretty well.
RV camping spaces are somewhat tough to find in some areas of the East, and so ended up staying at a hotel. Ouch. We'll try to target our end of day closer to camping places in the future...
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