Meet Our Van
Welcome to our van! It is a 177″ wheel base extended high-top Mercedes Sprinter cargo van, coming in at 24 feet in length and just over nine feet in height. There are generally three van …
Dogfish Inn and the Dogfish Head Brewery
The Dogfish Head Brewery was founded in 1995 by Sam Calagione, and quickly became known for its unique beers. The company has grown to include brewpubs and restaurants as well as a small hotel in …
Francis Scott Key Memorial and Grave Site
As a kid, I remember on numerous family trips from our home in southern Pennsylvania passing by a historical marker in Carroll County, Md., that announced the location of the birthplace of Francis Scott Key. …
Architecture / Flowers / History / Museums
Winterthur Museum and Gardens
Winterthur, pronounced “winter-tour” and named after an ancestral home in Winterthur, Switzerland, is one of the famous du Pont-related estates in Wilmington, Del., (we also toured Hagley and Nemours, and they are very different experiences). …
The Hagley Museum and Library
There’s a lot going on at the Hagley Museum, the site of the first-built of the trifecta of remaining du Pont estates in Wilmington, Del. (the others being Winterthur and Nemours, both of which we …
Delaware Art Museum
The Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Del., was founded in 1912 and has a collection of more than 12,000 objects. It was founded in honor of famed illustrator and artist Howard Pyle, and contains many …
Harpers Ferry National Historic Park
Harpers Ferry National Historic Park is a site that is rich in history. The town itself has lots of little village shops that you can see in any number of historical reenactment parks –- a …
Random Sites in Pennsylvania
Here is a collection of some of the sites we visited on our trip through Pennsylvania. Above is a photo of our van at a winery in eastern Pennsylvania — a very nice place to …
The Marian Coffin Gardens at Gilbraltar
In 1844 John Rodney Brinkle built an Italianate mansion in Wilmington, Del., and named it Gibraltar for the high, rocky outcropping upon which it was built. 55 years later, Hugh Rodney Sharp and his wife Isabella …
Antietam National Battlefield
On September 17, 1862, the Antietam Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md., was the site of the bloodiest day in American history, when nearly 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing after 12 hours of intense fighting, …