April 25, 2025 — Day 20 Pokomoke River State Park: Shad Landing, Snow Hill, Maryland Paul woke up with his right knee hurting even more than yesterday. He was in a real funk about it. There were fun things to do and his knee was not cooperating! There was biking with Susan to do. And kayaking to do! But that knee was really insisting on not being pushed. Making lemonade from lemons we decided to drive to the Chincoteague Wildlife Refuge and bird watch. After all, it’s migration season and we’re here for birds, did we really NEED an excuse to go birdwatching? We took the back roads to see…

April 24, 2025 — Day 19 Pokomoke River State Park: Shad Landing, Snow Hill, Maryland We’re pretty sure that you know we’re birders. But we’re not always very good birders. Susan’s parents would get up at 3AM, knock on her door to see if she wanted to come out looking for owl’s with them. (paul here, she didn’t.) Birds are easier to see in the early morning or late late afternoon. These are known as the crepuscular times. Yes, that will be on the test. And yes, we use that joke a lot, Paul started making the test after the last trip and it was too damn hard. Not the…

April 23, 2025 — Day 18 Pokomoke River State Park: Shad Landing, Snow Hill, Maryland We went kayaking today! (susan here: especially exciting because it was the first of the season! Plus!? Last year was so horrible rain wise that we didn’t get much kayak time so it was long overdue.) We waited until late morning, about 11am, because it was too chilly earlier. We brought some power bars with us for lunch. (susan here: that would be PAUL’s first lunch and my only. I knew that when we got back to the RV he’d be prowling for a “real” lunch.) But, those darned Thule Hullavators that make transporting the…

April 22, 2025 — Day 17 Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles Virginia — Pokomoke River State Park: Shad Landing, Snow Hill, Maryland Today is moving day, but moving only a little bit north which meant about 90 minutes of driving. We didn’t even bother hooking up the Jeep to Clifford since the bikes were on the back of Clifford. Also, one of us had to go back to the Eastern Shore Visitor Center to get stamps in our Passport book. We lazed about the morning, mostly because we couldn’t get to our destination early as check in was 3pm, so we were not hurrying until it was time to go…

April 21, 2025 — Day 16 Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, VA Not much to say today, another lazy day. Oh, we didn’t want to be lazy. We’d planned on kayaking out to the concrete boats. But the winds were high, gusting to over 25mph. It would even have been unpleasant to head out on the bikes. We’re in the trees and the gusts were moving the RV a little. We’ll take a pass on that thank you very much! Paul went and played radio. The ham radio propagation was horrible, the big solar flare is wreaking havoc with the radio waves. But still, he got some contacts in. The…

April 20, 2025 – Day 15 Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, VA It seems that we are on the road a lot on Easter Sunday. This isn’t intentional, it just happens that way. Last year we traveled for the eclipse. This year traveled for the birds. What’s odd is that we both love spring in New England. You’d think we’d figure out by now that we like to be home in spring time! Next year, right? We lazed about in the morning. Soon it was time for lunch. But we had no time to make our Easter dinner, so we just foraged in the fridge. Paul had his “near Philadelphia”…

April 19, 2025 — Day 14 Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, VA We keep moving the bike rack around, if we’re not driving to a trail we put them on the back of the RV, if we’re going somewhere, we put it on the Jeep. It feels more secure since they are less visible. But this means we now had good access to the Jeep’s taillights and Paul could finally install the 4 pin trailer adapter, so we could then install the brake lights on the bike cover. The dirty connector near the top of the photo is the original Jeep taillight harness. The pair of clean connectors (2 are…

April 18, 2025 — Day 13 Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, VA After we did some laundry we were ready for some adventure. It was too windy to kayak out to the Kiptopeke Breakwater, aka the concrete ships that form a barrier. We have the chops for it but we don’t like doing it. We took the kayaks down from the top of the Jeep then headed out to the Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge. We had been there 2 years ago and really enjoyed it. There is a long North — South trail, and it goes all the way down the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. We noodled…

April 16, 2025 — Day 11 Lums Pond State Park, Bear, DE — Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, VA It was quick to pack up to leave this morning because we had done all the water/sewer stuff the night before. We kept on thinking it was an easy peasy 3 1/2 hour drive to Kiptopeke. That’s because we keep on making the rookie mistake of checking Apple Maps for a time estimate. Apple Maps or Google Maps will give you the expected time based on the average time of other travelers. We aren’t average travelers. Clifford is the much bigger, slower “red dog” exceeding the speed limit only rarely, and…

April 14, 2025 — Day 9 Lums Pond State Park, Bear DE Paul’s brother John came to visit today so not much of a blog. We had lunch at the Route 40 Diner. We had eaten there before and loved it (it’s possible you might remember the neon glow). Paul had 2 massive crab cakes but was jealous of his brother’s choice which flounder stuffed with crab! Susan went with her diner favorite, the Monte Cristo. On the way back we saw this cool bike. We had passed it on the way in, Paul grabbed his camera, aka his phone, and managed to get off this lucky shot. There must be…