As noted on the home (“Map“) page of WolfeStreetTravel, international trips are punctuated by brief forays much closer to home: specifically, a quartet of towns and inns within a 2-hour drive of the actual Wolfe Street that we’ve been returning to for more than 20 years.
Three are located south and west of us in Virginia, but one is located east of us across the Bay Bridge on Maryland’s Eastern Shore: the Inn at Perry Cabin in St. Michaels. This was our destination at the end of July (a notable annual milestone for one of the WolfeStreetTravelers). We typically visit these locations as a joyful getaway from Alexandria, but ended up visiting both St. Michaels and Orange, VA – home of the Inn at Willow Grove – in 2020 because we simply had nowhere else to go during the first summer of COVID.
This trip was quite the opposite, and marked our fourth visit to St. Michaels, and we’ve posted on our initial visit to this location and its setting for the wedding reception scene in Wedding Crashers, so, just some quick updated pics in this post.
Other than rain one evening, pretty great weather in Maryland.
And the obligatory reptile pic due to the still-not-abandoned herpetologist aspirations of one of the WolfeStreetTravelers; here, a fine example of a blue-tailed skink.
The old Tilghman Island bridge (retired in 1998) on display next door at St. Michaels’ Maritime Museum. It looks odd because it’s one of the few examples of a heel trunnion rolling lift bascule bridge in the US (or anywhere):
- Unlike many drawbridges that rotate about a fixed pivot, the bridge’s span both rotates and rolls backward on a curved track as it opens.
- Its most recognizable feature is the large overhead counterweight, suspended above the roadway. This made it Maryland’s only overhead-counterweight bascule bridge.
- Because it crossed the busy Knapps Narrows channel separating Tilghman Island (just down the road from St. Michaels) to Maryland’s mainland, it opened roughly 12,000 times per year, making it one of the busiest movable bridges on the East Coast.
A WolfeStreetTravel tradition: feast on the water at The Crab Claw. Great crabs, as always (although a few were pretty small for “Large” crabs).
Sunset cocktails at the inn:
Another tradition: spicy Bloody Marys at The Galley.
And a fine local IPA.
Day trip for the first time to Easton, MD, right down the road.
Because one of us is a newly minted Irish citizen, we have the right to claim that there’s absolutely no way that there’s enough Irish recipes to fill this cookbook found at a local shop. Unless maybe each page is a different way to cook potatoes. . .
On a tree-lined avenue flanked by 19th-century mansions, an advertisement found multiple times embedded in stretches of sidewalk that did not, in fact, feature coffins.
The aforementioned rain. Luckily, this was the night we stayed in to eat.
Last evening in St. Michaels, featuring not only an amazing sky, but the rabbit that keeps the lawn mowed.
Pretty great visit.
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