Maryland's compelling
eastern shore
occupies over half of the broad Delmarva (
Del
aware,
Mar
yland,
V
irgini
a
) peninsula that protects the Chesapeake from the open Atlantic. Its miles of back roads are perfectly suited to aimless exploration and sudden discovery of such sights as the odd wooden farmhouse or tobacco barn marooned in the middle of a field, or an old sailboat tied up at an apparently decrepit dock that springs to life when the fishing craft return. The US-50 bridge/tunnel, built across the Chesapeake Bay in the early 1960s, may have made the eastern shore more accessible, but it hasn't affected its air of somnolence. Branching off from US-50 as it races down to the beach resort of
Ocean City
, quiet country lanes lead to two-hundred-year-old waterfront towns like
Chestertown, St Michaels
and
Oxford
.
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