Category Archives: Travel
Downtown dining – Effie Ophelia
On a rare night to ourselves, we indulged in a downtown Lancaster restaurant that’s been at the top of our must-try list for some time – Effie Ophelia.
Lauded for the inventive men......
Artful getaway
When kid’s away, the parents can play. A school camping trip meant a whole evening to ourselves – no homework or after-school activities or bedtime routines. We spent the bonus artf......
Windfall at Winterthur
Spectacular spring gardens, impressive American artifacts, and a whimsical Campbell’s collection of soup tureens, all combining at Winterthur to reprimand me for delaying a visit to this D......
Sunset to sunrise at Dewey Beach
Tucked on a quiet, tiny spit of land, surrounded by the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and Rehoboth Bay, Dewey Beach becomes a vacation mecca in the summer when its population explodes from 300 to......
Flippin’ horseshoe crabs
Dawn walks on the Delaware beach yield delightful discoveries as a rising sun illuminates all manner of treasures. Sand dollars, starfish, mermaid’s purses, and an endless variety of shel......
Catchable in Baltimore
Just in case I ever want to run away and join the circus, the Trapeze School in Baltimore has me covered. In under two hours, they had me from vertigo to “catchable” by teaching me n......
Reindeer in velvet
Just as our plants seem to grow by leaps and bounds this time of year, so do reindeer antlers. The stars of the holiday season lose their antlers in the depths of midwinter. But come spring, fuz......
Got a goat
Thank goodness for friends with benefits, especially in the springtime when we long for life on a farm. When we heard a new miniature goat was born, we dropped everything to see the tiny new arr......
Cheat in springtime
For whitewater enthusiasts, there are plenty of rivers to play on. Predictable rivers with dammed releases, offering familiar rapids that present scripted challenges.
But for purists, those look......
Mountain wine
It’s a challenge to grow grapes in the mountains of Maryland, where May freezes and tenacious deer threaten to wipe out a growing season in one swoop.
But winemaker Paul Roberts of Deep Creek Ce......