Day 10- 7/26: Atlantic beach goodbyes and dogfish heads

up for the standard run again by a little before 8. Delaware is not great running. I guess it’s been blowing up over the last 10 years with retirees from other east coast states. Low taxes and slightly warmer weather are pulling people from New York and Connecticut. There is developments everywhere. 800 house complexes filling in farm-fields all over the place. As like any new development, it looks like something out of the Truman show. I can get dropped off anywhere in the city and find my way home. Plop me in one of these compounds and I don’t know where to start. Headed out to the main road, which has lots of traffic, but thankfully a wide shoulder. A lot of the roads have a huge traffic load but literally no shoulder. Ran a fairly miserable 3 miles past development entrances and gas stations until I found a golf cart path that went between developments that was gravel and shaded. At the end of the day, if you’d told me I’d get three miles of soft surface off-road in, I’d have been okay with it, so there’s that.
     Mikes family friends are great . Very stereotypical Italian/Irish east coast people. Quite interesting to take in their world view. They leant is their bikes for the day and dropped us off at s nearby rail to trail that went out to the coast. New enough that google maps didn’t know it existed yet. Pretty quick ride into Lewes which is on the coast and had the ferry to cape May. We weaved through cape henlopen state park on some great trails and popped out at rehoboth which is a beach town complete with boardwalk, popcorn and crowded beaches. Plopped down at our spot, read a little, soaked in the ocean one last time, and biked back to get picked up again and headed over to dogfish head brewing. I knew it had quite the cult following, but it’s got a lot of muscle too. More than twice the production of summit or schells although the tap room was maybe on scale with indeed. Great beers though, and a good atmosphere as always. Dinner at a local cajan place that’s run by a New Orleans couple but with obviously local seafood. Excellent fare up and down from crawfish apps, to crab cakes entree, and pecan pie for dessert. Can’t complain about another great day on the Delmarva peninsula.

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