fly away

After drinking many beers and eating many delicious meals and working on our tans and slapping at flies our time in Delaware has ended. Our benefactors of this trip, Carl and Jill, will soon be returning from their family reunion out at Broadkill Beach and the relative shoreline mansion their friends lent them for the week. Their lovely Black Lab, Cindy Lou, could not handle all the stairs at this beach house so we were asked to tend to the pooch. She's a great dog, if only she would leave my shoes alone! As a retriever she absolutely loves to go around with something in her mouth. If she can't find the little plush toy goose she favors, it's my shoe or sandle. For a mooching pair like your stalwart Vacation From Home team, this week was a great joy and an honor to have been able to help our friends.

Thank you.

The other day we drove south of Dewey Beach for the day to a spot on the Coastal Highway, Route 1, called Towers Road. There's a beach access there with ample parking and with concession stands and the surf was strong and the sand was crowded with families. It was treacherous water, but it was fun to be brave in the churning froth and ride the waves. The temperature was cooler that day and the sun was warm and pleasant.

Yesterday, for our last evening, we thought to drive down to this Towers Road, thinking that around 6 p.m. we could savor the last of the day for free, that they would stop taking the $8.00 fee. Late afternoon on the beach is especially enjoyable. The sun is lower and the light golden and the waves turn blue green in color. We would either take the beach chairs and dig our toes in the sand or simply linger a short while by the little boardwalk that leads down to the beach from the concession stand. It should have been a pleasant time before we took our meal at Big Fish Grill Seafood Restaurant which is on Route 1 in Rehoboth Beach, but the old fellow in the wraparound sunglasses and garroulous but friendly way was just leaving his booth for the evening. We asked if we were able to go on the beach for free and he said there's a 24 hour fee and that we could fill out a little envelope and place it in the little box by the booth. Delaware has no sales tax, but you do pay for everything.

We opted instead for an early meal at Big Fish Grill (http://www.bigfishgrill.com/). Janet had a Halibut with pineapple salsa that was very tasty and fresh. Evidently they never have frozen fish at Big Fish Grill and so the Halibut costs more because it is flown in from wherever the Halibut comes from which I've been told is Alaska. I had a piece of blackened Grouper on a Caesar Salad that probably just hitchhiked its way up from Florida. Afterwards we drove to Lewes again and sat upstairs at Agave in a little bar they maintain there for another margarita. We sat on a couch and watched people get drunk as they waited for their tables downstairs. It was a good place for people watching.

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