Our stay in Dover, Delaware was full of many events from a historic lantern tour to a local bazaar; it was a gambit of events that truly highlighted the gems of this small capital city.

Lantern Tour on the Green

Dover's history involves interesting events such as a murder by chocolate and the overnight ride of Caesar Rodney to Philadelphia to make Delaware the first state...things we did not know about until this telling tour.

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Back on the road, after packing up camp, Melanie and I were in search of two valuable commodities... wi-fi and a place to rest our heads for the night.

The first of those was needed (for the obvious reason) to update you kind readers on our travels, so we moved on over to the near by town of Rehoboth. Wi-Fi was found in a cup of coffee from the resident Starbucks, though it wasn't Starbucks internet. (Hint: If you tuck yourself back close to the mall, you can use the mall's internet. It's conveniently free, opposed to AT&T's and Starbucks corporate hold on usage, and it's relatively fast.)

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Recently I took my car for its scheduled inspection back in South Jersey. Waiting in line as my gas tank sputtered on the verge running out of gas, visions of how the car industry came about ran through my head.

The model-t always comes to mind when thinking about the dawn of the automobile in the United States, but what happened before the engine? Back across the Delaware Memorial Bridge was a clue; at the Marvel Museum in Georgetown, Delaware a bit of that history remains intact.

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Across the street from DelMarVa Discovery Center, right off where the Bay Queen calls it quits for the day, hides a place of often unspoken history in Pocomoke City, Maryland.

This small museum dedicated to the strong African American man who purchased the land to extend education to the blacks of rural Worcester County in the late nineteenth century. The museum site offers both an actual house that held a 10-person family and a one-room schoolhouse moved there from a near by town.

The Sturgis One Room Schoolhouse is one of the places that goes well with the surrounding town, like a fine cheese goes with a good wine. This particular cheese is best paired with the Mar-Va Theater, or even as a prerequisite to the Discovery Center. Or perhaps even after a bite to eat at Pocomoke's re-opened cozy little Blackwater Café. (If you go, definitely ask for a oatmeal cookies... or three.)

A lovely historical day can easily be made here in this small town called Pocomoke City.