3 States

Today we went from Maryland, to Pennsylvania, and now we are in Delaware. We took a variety of back roads with only minimally short time getting lost.

Initially Ken felt "like it was in Oregon", and some definite truth to that. The foliage became very dense, deep green with moss and ferns. The trees grew over the roads and although there were no rivers, there were multiple streams and creeks.
The farmlands have generally become much smaller. Above is a pic of the few farmlands that still have large acreage. So pretty with their patch-work appearance of harvest, new and old growth. Most of the lands are much smaller now. The corn in this field is some of the water damaged corn, and probably won't produce much a harvest. Note how short they have grown. Several points along the ride the corn stood sharply between 6-8 feet high.

Throughout today were the grand estates, horse stables surrounded by fences, (not at eloquent as yours, Janet!), huge brick and stone homes with long, narrow windows. No openly large 'picture' windows, like we are used to. Multiple tall windows. Many of the houses also have smaller "servant quarters" near-by.
I felt these mansions reflected "Old Money", romantic novels, turn-of-century stories, Great Gatsby, etc. One street was named, "My Lady's Manor". Ken was reminded of stories about espionage, CIA mysteries, hidden computers and spies. Here has been the most expensive cars, intermittently, we have seen thus far.

On a lighter side, while riding in more dense traffic after we entered Delaware, there was the official yellow sign along the side of the road, "Watch for Aggressive Driver". And ... what do you do when you find one? Do they wear signs saying they are such??? The state also has an interesting method of, hopefully, preventing tail-gating: huge white painted spots on the center asphalt of each lane. These are specifically spaced from each other in their distance. There are sign directions to keep at least 2 spots between you and the car in front of you. Actually, seems like that would work better than the counting (1-1000, 2-1000) method that most other states urge drivers to use.
There is also a new chain of gasoline and convenience stores titles, "Wawa". Who would name a store that?? The owner's infant child??

Tomorrow we finialized our ride into Atlantic City.
We are all ready for that.

I'll blog for a few more days as I've been accumulating interesting "items" along the way, then we'll call it a wrap.

One more day of riding....