Today was our best weather day so far. While mid-day temperatures did get into the
low 80s, the humidity remained low.
We cycled a 50 mile loop that took us north to Maryland ,
then west to bay, before heading back east to our motel. Our first stop into history was
Horntown. According to our guide book,
Horntown “is not only faded, it is actually disappearing…Once one of the
largest communities on the Shore...” Our
guide was last updated in 2002 so you can only imagine what we saw—several once
stately homes disintegrating beyond repair.
We next headed to the “marrying tree” where Virginia
couples stepped over the line into Maryland ,
which had a younger marrying age. While
the tree was not that interesting, we got there on a serpentine road that took
us back and forth between the 2 states at least a dozen times in a few hundred
feet. Mostly we cycled through farm
lands and forests where we made several additional stops at historic homes and
peaceful water ways.
Once back in Chincoteague we rested before taking a walking
tour of its historic district that boasts of about a dozen 100 plus year old
homes.
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