• Ocean City Beach. Maryland

    Ocean City Beach. Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Formal beach attire

    Formal beach attire. Ocean City. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Beach-front Hotels

    Ocean City Beach. Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Ocean City Beach, Maryland

    Ocean City Beach. Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    Looking south, commercial development ceases abruptly.

  • Commercial Development II

    Hilton Ocean City. Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    I changed position, and this works a lot better at showing the development without the hotel getting quite as much attention, even if it does still dominate the picture more than I’d like.

  • Commercial Development

    Hilton Ocean City. Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    This wasn’t meant to be a picture of a hotel. I was more interested in how commercial development dominates the environment and how the buildings seem to run forever along the coast.

    Hindsight suggests I should have picked a starting point for the image with a less dominating subject. Also, the focus is a tad soft for some reason.

    Hilton Ocean City. Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Daybreak. Ocean City, Maryland

    Daybreak. Ocean City, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
    Sunrise on the Atlantic. Ocean City, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Waiting for the sunrise. Ocean City, Maryland

    Day Fourteen

    Waiting for the sunrise. Ocean City, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Ginger dips her toes in the Atlantic Ocean. Lily Beach, Delaware

    Ginger dips her toes in the Atlantic Ocean. Lily Beach, Delaware. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    After we visited Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, we headed down the Delaware coast and stopped for our first view of the Atlantic Ocean in many years (March 2014).

    We then continued down the coast in search of somewhere to stay.

    Ginger found a great deal on a hotel in Ocean City, Maryland. One look at the view of the Atlantic from our room’s balcony and we both said that we must set an alarm for sunrise the next day.

  • Reeds on the Boardwalk Trail. Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware

    Reeds on the Boardwalk Trail. Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Boardwalk — Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware

    Boardwalk — Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Raymond Pool from the Raymond Observation Tower

    Raymond Pool from the Raymond Observation Tower. Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware.
    Raymond Pool from the Raymond Observation Tower. Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    Day Thirteen

    Raymond Pool from the Raymond Observation Tower. Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware. Road trip, November ’24.

    We plan to head down the Delaware and Maryland coast, cut across Virginia, and visit North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and hence back home to Missouri. We’ve no idea how long that’ll take, but I have a dental appointment on November 27. So, we’ll be back before then!

  • Beaver Moon. Road trip, November ’24

    Day Four

    Drove to Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

    Days Five – Eight

    Business Event.

    Day Nine

    Pack up and drive to Philadelphia.

    Days Ten – Eleven

    Beaver Moon. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    After three days traveling followed by a very busy four days, we were ready to just crash. We stopped for three days in a hotel on the outskirts of Philadelphia to regroup and make some outline plans for our route home.

    During our stay I spotted this picture of the Beaver Moon from our hotel room.

    Day Twelve

    We drove to Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and visited the Mercer Museum. After spending several hours there, we set off toward Delaware, stopping for the night in New Castle.

  • On the road again

    Nice view spoiled by the hotel buildings. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Road trip, November ’24. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    We’re off on our travels again. This time, it is to a four-day business event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Following this, we will take a slow, as yet undecided, route home.

    Day One

    Our trip started with a diversion as the I-44 was closed due to flooding. We managed to find a quiet detour with almost no traffic on it. Crossing the Gasconade river was interesting, as the river was almost up to the bridge deck (I should have stopped and taken some pictures). Once back on the I-44 it was an easy (but long) drive to Indianapolis.

    Day Two

    We drove from Indianapolis to our hotel on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

    Day Three

    Today we are going to tour some museums, and tomorrow we head off to Lancaster, and the event.

  • Sign by Jim

    Sign by Jim. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    Another of Jim’s commissions.

    Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • A change of plan

    A change of plan — Here I am enjoying the sunset and beer on the deck at the cottage. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    We were staying at the cottage this past weekend, so I wasn’t expecting to be returning here anytime soon. But Jim needed some tests done in Springfield (all okay) and wouldn’t be able to drive home. I volunteered to drive, and now here I am!

    I’ll drive them back to Springfield tomorrow for another appointment, and they’ll be able to get themselves home from there.

  • Trout Fishing on Spring Creek, Rockbridge

    Trout Fishing on Spring Creek, Rockbridge. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

    I took a break from looking at all the cool cars to watch some trout fishing below the mill pond.

  • Ava Hometown Hotrods Festival — 100 Mile cruise, stop at Rockbridge

    Ava Hometown Hotrods Festival — 100 Mile cruise, stop at Rockbridge, Missouri. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
    Ava Hometown Hotrods Festival — 100 Mile cruise, stop at Rockbridge, Missouri. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Ava Hometown Hotrods Festival — 100 Mile cruise, stop at Hodgson Mill

    Ava Hometown Hotrods Festival — 100 Mile cruise, stop at Hodgson Mill, Missouri. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.

  • Ava Hometown Hotrods Festival — 100 Mile cruise, stop at Hodgson Mill

    Ava Hometown Hotrods Festival — 100 Mile cruise, stop at Hodgson Mill, Missouri. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
    Ava Hometown Hotrods Festival — 100 Mile cruise, stop at Hodgson Mill, Missouri. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
    Ava Hometown Hotrods Festival — 100 Mile cruise, stop at Hodgson Mill, Missouri. Copyright © 2024 Gary Allman, all rights reserved.
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