On the Road ...

Since my husband can no longer drive, I am the only driver - no matter where we go.  I don’t mind driving generally, but when someone else is doing the driving, it is a real treat to sit in the passenger seat.  

My sister volunteered to drive so that I could knit on the trip.  I didn’t knit a stitch. Just ran my mouth the whole way, and it was lovely.

Although I have driven to Ocean City many times, I have always taken the most common route - Route 50 to Route 90!  It takes you through several local Eastern Shore towns - like Easton and Cambridge and Salisbury.  None of them are particularly scenic - just groupings of every day communities with the store fronts providing the day-to-day residential needs and stop lights.

But this time we followed a more easterly route to the shore that took us through a lot of farm lands. Route 404 is less congested with fewer cops monitoring out-of-towners. 

When it was time for a stop - a charming farm store attached to an orchard popped up just like we had ordered it.

 

  

Besides the fruit and vegetables they had some specialty vinegar and olive oils, like white balsamic peach flavored vinegar and garlic olive oil.  Using their selection of bottles, we got both of those. 

They also had wonderful bakery items and sandwiches - made to order.  We decided this was great place to stop and have lunch.

When we left - we carried with us about 5 different desserts to share at the ocean and dog cookies.  Since we would only be 3 on this visit, we may have over-did-it on the desserts.

Before you knew it we had reached the condo - The Phoenix - owned by my cousin.  One of the big advantages of this condo is that it was built before the time when Ocean City regulated just how close to the sand dunes you could build!  As a result the building is built further out near the sand dune by a number of yards.  

And it is built right beside access to the beach. 

The balcony for the condo is on the right. Perfect view.

Perfect view for this!  Hello, beautiful!

And because it juts out being an original building, this is the view to the left off the balcony.  Unobstructed view of the dunes on the deck. 

The weather was beautiful - but, truthfully, there is no such thing as a bad day at the beach. 

Next up: The View ...