Day 27

 Day 27-Monday, May 17

This was our last full day camping.  Tomorrow we will take the 8:00 AM ferry from Lewes, Delaware, to Cape May, NJ, and then drive home…hopefully making it before it’s dark!  Once the ferry arrives in Cape May, we will have 400 miles to go.

We slept relatively late, not getting out of our sleeping bags until after 7:00 AM, and then fixed our usual breakfast, which was yes, the same as last night’s dinner!  We’ve been incredibly lucky with the weather.   We’ve only had to wear raincoats once, during our mid day stop in Asheville.   We did have a couple of rainy nights, but other than nothing but sun and a few clouds for the past 27 days.  

After breakfast we went for a ride along the park’s bike trails, checking out everyone’s camping gear, and coming across several of the wild ponies, including one mother and her foal. 

Returning to our van, we packed up all our gear and headed north along the coast into Delaware, first to Rehoboth Beach, and then to Cape Henlopen State Park in Lewes.  

We stopped for wonderful lunch at the “Egg” café in Rehoboth Beach, and as the name suggests we had eggs…regular eggs benedict for Joni and eastern shore benedict for me.  Eastern Shore benedict replaces the Canadian bacon with lump crabmeat.  

After lunch we tried to find Joe Biden’s home, expecting to see heavy security measures in front, similar to what you saw in front of the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, or the Bush home on Walker Point in Kennebunkport, but there were none, so I’m not sure if we saw it. 

Leaving Rehoboth, we had a very short drive to our campground.  When we checked in I asked the ranger if they’ve had a busy spring, and he said, “yes, in fact, every campsite is booked from now until the end of October!”.   Hard to believe.

We set up our campsite, and remounted our bikes and took off on another ride along this park’s bike trails.  This park is located on the grounds of what was Fort Miles, a WWII military base that was established as part of the coastal security measures all along the eastern seaboard.  Throughout the park there are observation towers and a variety of cannons, all pointed out to sea, waiting for German warships or U-Boats.  

 By the time we finished our bike ride it was time to clean up for dinner.  We decided that since this was our last full night for this trip we needed to celebrate, so we went out, returning to Matt’s Fish Camp, where we’d dined last fall.  Our meal was very good and included a variety of oysters, soft shell crabs on a bed of risotto, and fried chicken.  No room for dessert.  A great last supper.

As I write this day 27 summary, we’re listening to the Bruins-Capitols playoff game on Sirius XM…and they won!