Castaways RV south of Ocean City, MD

We had a great week camping once again south of Ocean City, MD, after being home only for about 12 hours after going to/from Florida for the shuttle launch.  This is a 5-star resort, although we still miss the old mom-and-pop operation it used to be until a few years ago.  We often had the private beach to ourselves and now it is full of campers.  But, now that the kids are older its probably better for them because there are lots of new friends to play with.  And they have a full bar on the beach so we enjoy some adult beverages fresh from the blender.  Of course we gave several tours of the 'pod and many people waved and said they liked the camper as they walked or drove by on their golf cart.

We took the long way home to drop our camper off at the dealer for some work before we head to Maine in a few weeks.  We were lucky to just miss a major accident on Route 1 in Delaware which shut the road down for hours (it also shut down I-95).  We got off DE-1 at 1:40 for lunch and at 1:45 a driver ran off the road just about where we would have been at that time, into a parked crane.  She did not survive.  We got caught in the traffic mess and lost an hour - but I would rather that than either get hit by an out of control driver or see the aftermath of the accident that we would have seen.

After dropping off the camper in Adamstown, PA we took a 30-second trip down the road for an obligatory dinner and ice cream at an old mom-and-pop stand called Boehringer's (I think that is how its spelled) which has been there over 60 years.  If you are on US Rt-222 going past Rt-272 you must go west 1 minute for some extra calories.

Oh, and they had a new 177 on the lot, similar layout as the 171 but with the slideout... and now my wife is bugging me to see how a trade-in would work out...