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Chincoteague Kayaking Adventure – 4 Hags, 4 Miles, 4 Hot Men

Chincoteague Travel Hag Adventure

Part of the fun of being a Travel Hag is traveling with girlfriends.  On May 18, 2013, four Hags met at Snug Harbor Marina on Chincoteague Island (2 brought their husbands) and launched kayaks for a four mile paddle out to Assateague Island in the rain.  Actually 5 hags met,...

 
 

Child Haunts Cry Baby Bridge in Marion Station

East Creek, Somerset County, Maryland

A four year old child named Annie haunts Cry Baby Bridge (formerly called Mill Dam Bridge).  The Bridge runs over East Creek on L.Q. Powell Road in Marion Station, Somerset County, MD. The Haunted Legend The legend of a child haunting the bridge tells of a young mother and her...

 
 

#3 Pocomoke River Canoe Company – Kayak and Paddle in Flat Water

Pocomoke River Canoe Company in Snow Hill

100 Things to Do Between the Bridge and the Beach   Every year millions of people cross a bridge to travel to the Atlantic Beaches on Delmarva. It may be the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel or a bridge over the Delaware Canal. They may be headed to...

 
 

#2 Unicorn Books – 30,000 Used and Rare Books

Unicorn Books, Ocean Hwy (westbound), Trappe, MD - Talbot County

100 Things to Do Between the Bridge and the Beach   Every year millions of people cross a bridge to travel to the Atlantic Beaches on Delmarva. It may be the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel or a bridge over the Delaware Canal. They may be headed to...

 
 

#1 Visit Harriet Tubman’s Birthplace

#1 Visit Harriet Tubman’s Birthplace

100 Things to Do Between the Bridge and the Beach   Every year millions of people cross a bridge to travel to the Atlantic Beaches on Delmarva. It may be the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel or a bridge over the Delaware Canal.  They may be headed to...

 
 

Where Are the Ghosts in Easton?

Where Are the Ghosts in Easton?

There are ghosts in Easton, the Eastern Shore’s second largest historic town.  Easton’s name comes from once being the eastern capital of Maryland, and though there’s no need these days to have a capital city on the east side of the Chesapeake Bay, Easton is still an anchor on the...

 
 

Fisherman’s Inn – Crab Cake Heaven

Fisherman’s Inn – Crab Cake Heaven

Love crab cakes? You can get one of the best crab cakes on the Eastern Shore at Fisherman’s Inn located about six miles east of the Bay Bridge along the Kent Narrows. As a lifelong Marylander and lover of all-things-crabby, I’m always searching for that perfect crab cake.  Tons of...

 
 

Easton Ghost Walk – Hotel, Theater and Home of the Friendless

Easton Ghost Walk – Hotel, Theater and Home of the Friendless

Mindie Burgoyne will lead a Ghost Walk through the Town of Easton on February 23, 2013 at 5:00 pm and on March 15th at 7:00 pm.  Cost is $15 per person, $9 for kids between 8 and 12.  The walk will cover several downtown block in Easton’s historic district.  Sites...

 
 

Eastern Neck Wildlife Refuge – A Reason to Visit the Shore in the Winter

Eastern Neck Wildlife Refuge – A Reason to Visit the Shore in the Winter

What do you do in the winter in an area touted as a warm weather destination?  Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge near Rock Hall, Maryland has more notoriety as winter destination than summer, even though it’s a 2285 acre island in a region known for fishing, boating, crabbing, canoeing and...

 
 

What is a Buyboat Anyway?

Chesapeake Bay Buy Boat P.E. Pruitt

  The Chesapeake Bay Buy Boat Reunion was held this year (August 3-4, 2012) at Somers Cove Marina in Crisfield, Maryland. What’s a Buy Boat or Buyboat? It’s a boat whose captain would buy a waterman’s catch directly off that waterman’s boat, and then take the catch to one of...

 
 

Address to a Haggis

Hagmen - Andy and Dan befroe the Address to a Haggis

The Travel Hag Campout at Elk Neck State Park was great fun despite the downpour over our pot-luck dinner. Eleven hags and hagmen participated, camping in tents, trailers and cabins at Elk Neck State Park- a 2100 acre, bay-side campground at the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay. Though the hags...

 
 

16 Hags Paddled the Transquaking River – One got Towed

16 Hags Paddled the Transquaking River – One got Towed

Our last Travel Hag Adventure was July 23rd when 15 hags and their hag-men met the outfitters where the Transquaking River is crossed by Drawbridge Road.  Travel hags came from the Eastern Shore, Washington DC and Pennsylvania.  About half those who met had little or no kayaking experience and most...

 
 
 
 
 

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