Breakfast at Baldy’s

The roadtrip USA book led us to a great local breakfast joint, and boy it was as local as local can be. The name was changed from the book to Mr. Baldy’s and the dirt parking lot was filled with pick- up trucks. We greeted by Flo and stared by all three booths full of toothless men. One even just got his new prosthetic leg. Flo whispered the breakfast special to Eric (Ham and cheese omelet). Eric accepted the offer and I had the Veggie omelet with Egg beaters. After breakfast we purchased some post cards to commemorate it and got the hell out of there. We were off to lunch in Southern Virginia.

Our Visit through Our Nation's First State

We were exited to be in Delaware and to be off of the ferry a little sea sick and definitely hungry. Kelly somehow remembered the location of a mexican restaurant she had once been to before. Whilst making sharp, erratic turns we somehow found the famed mexican restaurant named, Agave. We dined on Super Nachos and more mexican delights. Deeeeelicious!!

We drove some more through the town of Lewes and stumbled upon a Christmas Creature that I had to jump out of the car and take a picture of him.

Our last stop in Delaware was the Fenwick Island Lighthouse. Apparently in years past, there was some sort of conflict between two states as to who owned this lighthouse. If you would like to know more please research it on the internet. We did not have Wi-Fi at that time.

A last minute decision was made to drive straight through the rest of Delaware and through Maryland without stopping in order to make it to Virginia tonight. After stopping at many a hotel, we found one that fit our budgetary needs. YES!!!

We have many activities and states to get through tomorrow so we are off to bed for the night. Stay tuned for more.

I’LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU JACK!

Here we sit on the Cape May – Lewes Ferry writing this entry. It is now 5:32 and we are swaying with the waters. Why we decided to take the ferry we can’t remember because both of us get SEA SICK! We are excited for all our adventures to come in Delaware and Maryland. Stay tuned, hopefully we can find a place to sleep tonight.

More Lucy Pictures!

Just because we loved her so.....

I Love Lucy!

After the debacle of Atlantic City we needed a pick me up. LUCY here we come. This 55 foot elephant is one of the wonders of the world. Everyone should take the trip to visit her. http://www.lucytheelephant.org/. Promptly at two Eric and I took the tour of Lucy. We went in through her left rear leg and up a very tight, narrow, winding staircase into the belly of the beast. Lucy is gorgeous inside. See pictures below for our adventures at Lucy. If anyone is interested they are serving Valentines dinner inside of Lucy for 420 dollars a couple! What a deal!

ATLANTIC CITY BABY, It’s my kind of town!

After dealing with the confusing streets and self parking lot conundrum we made it into the Tropicana casino which was beautifully decorated for Christmas. Snow falling from the ceiling and all the tinsel you can dream of. We decided that our gambling limit would be five dollars each. After losing our five dollars in five seconds we decided to increase out limit to ten each. Thirty seconds later we were out twenty bucks on the nickel machines!
Because our luck was crappy we thought the best thing to cheer us up would be food/taffy. So we braved the elements and the hard hitting streets of Atlantic City and hit the boardwalk. It was two degrees and windy, hoods up and tied. We walked about 500 feet to the first open place that had taffy, bought a box and stepped back out to brave the wind once more. We savagely opened the box of taffy and to break our teeth on the two year old box that we bought. To our dismay when we walked back into the hotel there was a taffy store inside! They had delicious and fresh taffy. We headed back to the car only to realize we were in the wrong garage. Fighting to stay alive and warm we were escorted back to our car by security (In a good way).

Day One! Hit the Road!!!

So I left Long Island at 7:30am. I arrived at Eric’s place at 9AM. After a bathroom break and a brief gift exchange we were off wearing the matching outfits…unplanned (see below)! We loaded up the car and shoved the door closed and off we went. We traveled for the next two hours singing our hearts out to such hits as “Single Ladies,” “Everybody Now,” “Altar Boyz,” and our new favorite Christmas song by Straight No Chaser “Twelve Days of Christmas.” Luckily we brought our GPS because we have no agenda and no sense of direction! We are pretty much clueless and geographically challenged!