{"id":2731,"date":"2017-09-29T12:03:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T19:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=2731"},"modified":"2017-09-29T12:03:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T19:03:45","slug":"eastern-shore-of-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2017\/09\/29\/eastern-shore-of-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Shore of Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We left Philly to camp near Assateague Island so we could see the wild horses.\u00a0\u00a0 We were pleasantly surprised how nice the campground was.\u00a0 It had “resort” in its name so I assumed, like most of the others with that in the name, it wouldn’t qualify as a Resort.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But It did and it was a really nice place,\u00a0 paved level sites with grass all around, a short walk to the Tiki Bar on the beach.\u00a0 Kathy even approved of the bathrooms and laundry.\u00a0 That’s been a\u00a0 tough review since we’ve been traveling.\u00a0 They even had a beach for the pups to play on.<\/p>\n

What I thought was odd though was the quantity of golf carts in use.\u00a0\u00a0 This place rented them.\u00a0 When driving up I thought we were at a golf club as there were at least 50 carts lined up in front of the office.\u00a0\u00a0 After a day or so and it got closer to the weekend, there were golf carts everywhere.\u00a0\u00a0 No one walks at the Castaways Resort…\u00a0 I kept thinking about LA and the song about no one walks in LA.<\/p>\n

The only drawback to this campground was the \"\"<\/a>whole place was only about 6″ above high tide, probably due to Hurricane Jose still being offshore.\u00a0 It made me think it could be a really bad spot if there was a full moon during a high tide.<\/p>\n

Right down the road, on the way into Ocean City, I spotted this beauty in front of a restaurant.\u00a0 I just had to get a picture, I hadn’t seen one of these trucks since I was about 10 years old.\u00a0\u00a0 They used to be around our neighborhood a couple times a week in the summer.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>We drove over to Assateague Island to look for the horses.\u00a0\u00a0 There was a greeting committee; but after them, we saw no more horses, only lots of reminders \"\"<\/a>they were all around.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The island is another low place and the water from the sound was very high.\u00a0 You can see in some of the pics down below, things that shouldn’t be underwater were.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We were allowed to bring the pups out to the beach area here also.\u00a0 Lots of big waves on the ocean side of the island.<\/p>\n

The next day we drove the hour to Chincoteague Island.\u00a0\u00a0 What a dog unfriendly place that was.\u00a0 And we did not see any signs of the Chincoteague Ponys either.\u00a0 We did get some tasty Mexican take-out from a small trailer on the side of the road…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thankfully the day wasn’t a total bust as we found the \"\"<\/a>Berlin Fiddle Convention happening on the way back to the campground.\u00a0\u00a0 Quite a nice small town, surprisingly sans any empty storefronts.\u00a0 That has not been the norm anywhere we have been while on this trip.\u00a0\u00a0 Most of the small towns had mostly empty storefronts on the main streets.<\/p>\n

We arrived late in the afternoon, so a close-in parking space we found without \"\"<\/a>any need for searching.\u00a0\u00a0 Turns out Berlin was a dog friendly place, with lots of them walking their owners.\u00a0\u00a0 They had closed off the main street and folks had just \"\"<\/a>come for the show with their chairs.\u00a0\u00a0 There were lots of small booths selling trinkets, food and beer.\u00a0\u00a0 I found a beer right away as it was fairly hot in the sun.\u00a0 Next thing was to find some shade, luckily it was also readily available.\u00a0 Kathy perused the booths and I sipped a pretty good local brew.\u00a0\u00a0 The fiddling wasn’t bad either.<\/p>\n

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We left Philly to camp near Assateague Island so we could see the wild horses.\u00a0\u00a0 We were pleasantly surprised how nice the campground was.\u00a0 It had “resort” in its name so I assumed, like most of the others with that in the name, it wouldn’t qualify as a Resort.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But It did and it was … <\/p>\n

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