Unlike last year, I don’t really have enough locations this year to do a picture for each place, so I’ll go back to the original idea of a photo a month. 2014 was largely a rather good year, with some…
Delicious Inspiration for Today
Strawberry Smith Island cake, made by my neighbor Becca (who owns a restaurant and sells her cakes to other restaurants also), and enjoyed at the Island House in Wachapreague. Smith Island cake is an Eastern Shore tradition originating…
Delicious Inspiration for Today
A cinnamon sugar donut, OC Sand flavor, at the Fractured Prune on the Ocean City, Maryland boardwalk. We are back at home and making up for the foods we missed while away. For now, we are visiting friends…
The Boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland
Ah, Ocean City. The wacky, fun, trashy little slice of Americana that was a huge part of my youth. The town has plenty of good restaurants, some mini golf courses, and a decent number of outlet stores. But the main…
Travel Photo: Maryland Renaissance Festival
“Genuine” medieval signs at the second largest renaissance festival in the U.S.
Delicious Inspiration for Today
Fried macaroni and cheese on a stick at the Maryland Renaissance Festival in Crownsville, Maryland. You can get just about anything on a stick there.
Travel Photo: Ocean City, Maryland
A sign advertises rides under a blue sky on the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland.
Sugarloaf Mountain
A bit south of Frederick, Maryland lies a 1,282 foot monadnock (an isolated mountain rising abruptly from the surrounding land, usually due to erosion) called Sugarloaf Mountain. Kind of strangely, the mountain is owned by a private (nonprofit) company and…
Maryland Renaissance Festival and National Equality March
Basically copying my Yelp review for the Ren Fest: This was my first renaissance festival. I was surprised at how affordable the food was (I had sort of been expecting Busch-Gardens-level expensive) and how delicious it was. I had macaroni…