Author: neil

  • Snow Hill, MD to Nassawadox, VA

    Snow Hill, MD to Nassawadox, VA

    Our campsite was just as perfect in the morning as it was last night. Crunchy-leaf dry, 58℉, and wind-protected by the surrounding forest. Arachnophobe Rett, to her credit, rejected my offer to also do the morning dishes, and instead steeled herself to face the wall of daddy-long-legs at the dishwashing station. But during my morning…

  • Berlin, MD to Snow Hill, MD

    Berlin, MD to Snow Hill, MD

    This morning, we didn’t even need to go see the sunrise to get the Assateague horses to show up; they were there from the moment I crawled out of the tent. Three of them started about 60 feet away, but slowly came closer to our site, heads down obsessively munching grass the whole time while…

  • Berlin, MD

    Berlin, MD

    Day 2 At 11pm, Rett was asleep, but I was still awake on my phone inside our tent. I suddenly heard loud snuffling near our bikes, and I was 90% sure that Assateauge horses had arrived to investigate. I sat up, and became 100% sure when the moonlight cast a perfect horse-shaped silhouette on Rett’s…

  • Seaford, DE to Berlin, MD

    Seaford, DE to Berlin, MD

    After four wonderful days with two sets of old friends made new, it was time to return to life “alone”. I pointed RideWithGPS to Assateauge Island, and it made a roughly straight-line path heading southeast from Seaford for 50 miles. By default its routing algorithm favors minor roads, which sometimes makes it add far too…

  • Georgetown, DE to Seaford, DE

    Georgetown, DE to Seaford, DE

    Now that we’d dallied until Saturday, we were able to get a nice goodbye (and photo!) with the whole Barlow family. The men were off to participate in a community cleanup, and on our way to the Mercado and Walmart through Georgetown we saw the crew working, and passed the police station, but didn’t get…