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Day trips from Washington: Baltimore, Harpers Ferry, Gettysburg, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Frederick, Great Falls, Wilmngton/Winterthur, Annapolis, and lots more.
Baltimore, well, what can you say? Been there, done that, and I wouldn't exactly hurry back anyway. In any case, I was far from the only person who had my observation when I lived there. If you wanted to get out of Washington for a summer weekend, it was quite a haul. And then where were you? Rehoboth Beach. Oh joy.
I was visiting from Washington, D.C. at the time, and told them that, where I lived, the only beachfront you could visit would have about half a million people jammed into the same amount of space. That's Rehoboth. Went once, took a look around, and said, "Never again!"
Not true. Less than an hour north is Cape Henlopen state park, where you can have a stretch of beach to yourself if you're willing to walk a hundred yards from a parking area.
And in Delaware you can go into the water. And stay there for a while. Try that at Cape Flattery!
You have ben to Baltimore, but not everyone has. What did you think of the Walters? Of the American Visionary Art Museum. A number of the places I mentioned are closer to DC than Baltimore is.
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willy, I eally don't understand what you mean when you say that Washington is pretty far from anything else.Day trips from Washington: Baltimore, Harpers Ferry, Gettysburg, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Frederick, Great Falls, Wilmngton/Winterthur, Annapolis, and lots more.
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True about Baltimore and Annapolis, but the others are pretty hefty drives. And most of the other ones offer a limited appeal, i.e., to Civil War buffs. Which is fine if you're a Civil War buff, but I'm not. I guess when I wrote that Washington's pretty far from anywhere else, I wasn't thinking about the Civil War sites but of places of broader interest.Baltimore, well, what can you say? Been there, done that, and I wouldn't exactly hurry back anyway. In any case, I was far from the only person who had my observation when I lived there. If you wanted to get out of Washington for a summer weekend, it was quite a haul. And then where were you? Rehoboth Beach. Oh joy.
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p.s.: But hey, each to their own. And I've heard great things about Longwood Gardens. Never did get there, unfortunately.37
Funny about Rehoboth, #50. For years I've used it as a conversational foil. I like to tell the story about running into a tourist from central Washington while staying in a cabin near Cape Flattery, the northwest-most point of Washington State. There was a five-mile beach with maybe 50 people on it at the very height of the day, and the central Washington tourists were lamenting the crowd.I was visiting from Washington, D.C. at the time, and told them that, where I lived, the only beachfront you could visit would have about half a million people jammed into the same amount of space. That's Rehoboth. Went once, took a look around, and said, "Never again!"
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the only beachfront you could visit
Not true. Less than an hour north is Cape Henlopen state park, where you can have a stretch of beach to yourself if you're willing to walk a hundred yards from a parking area.
And in Delaware you can go into the water. And stay there for a while. Try that at Cape Flattery!
You have ben to Baltimore, but not everyone has. What did you think of the Walters? Of the American Visionary Art Museum. A number of the places I mentioned are closer to DC than Baltimore is.
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#38, I was thinking "Delmarva coast," but who kniws, it looks like I missed a spot. Big country out there, huh? I'm no fan of Baltimore, but different people are different. I agree about the swimming. With a few exceptions, I've usually been much more of a beachcomber than a swimmer. But again, different people are different.
