Back on the Road–Ocean City, MD

Our original plan for when we left Kiptopeke was going to be to cross back over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, through Hampton and Richmond, and then taking I-64 through West Virginia and Kentucky, and then up into Indiana.

After talking to the other hosts at Kiptopeke, though, who are from Pennsylvania, they recommended that we travel north through the Delmarva Peninsula and cross on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge into Annapolis, and then take I-70 and I-68 across Maryland, clipping the corner of West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and crossing Ohio into Indiana.  They assured us that it was a good route, so we decided to give it a try.  We wanted to get up to Ocean City and Chincoteague at the end of July anyway, so we just timed our departure to give us a few days in Ocean City on the way.

Campgrounds at the beach in Maryland are expensive in the summer!  We finally managed to get a “But 2 nights, Get 1 free” deal through Sun RV at Fort Whaley Campground, about 10 miles west of Ocean City.

It was a nice park, and we were glad to enjoy the amenities of an RV Park for a few days!

It was a short 100 mile drive, so we arrived before noon and got set up.

We enjoyed the pool a couple afternoons,

and played some complimentary miniature golf.

It was a pretty good little course, and Tom only beat me by one point!

Last fall when we came to Ocean City, we got some salt water taffy that was the best we’ve ever had . . . that was a big part of the reason we wanted to come back through here!

We took a trip out to the beach one afternoon,

and walked along the boardwalk.

It was very windy that day, and the waves were really big . . . but there were still kids in the water!

Too rough for us!

Sand sculptures on the beach

After walking on the beach and board walk for a while, we headed back toward the Jeep and stopped to get what we came for.

Whenever we would tell somebody that we went to Ocean City, they would say “Oh, did you get some fries from Thrashers?” and we would say no we didn’t, because the line was a mile long!  This time, though, the line was short so we decided we should give them a try.

Mmm . . . they were good!

But maybe Tom had too many!

After our little snack, we stopped at Dolle’s to pick up our buckets of salt water taffy – it’s as good as we remembered!!

WE had one more reason for coming up this way . . . but that will have to be a blog post all on its own!