Great picture-
As good as it gets!

Thanks Margaret,

I hope people understand that when I am on the road like this, it is often a challenge to find a strong connection and the time to update. It's not like having three computers online at the same time on a 5 meg cable connection at home.

And, as a writer, it really does take a little time to get comfortable enough to produce.

But this Cherry Hill Park campground in Maryland is fantastic in many ways. They say it is a 5 star campground and it has lots of amenities, including a big screen TV room, a sauna and hot tub, two swimming pools, a convention hall and walking trails.

There does seem to be a limit on the bandwidth one is allowed to use, but I am going to try and write a column this morning while drinking my coffee and listening to the DC NPR station.

If the connection holds, and I can keep the sun off the computer screen with the angle of the canoe long enough, it just might work.

The biggest down side of this place is that it is not out in the woods in nature so much. In fact, it is right off the Washington Beltway and I can hear the damn trucks from here.

But there is a bus that runs here often that will take you right to the Metro train, so it is an easy jaunt into DC.

The other problem is that I make even more typos than usual on the small keyboard on this laptop. I hope readers will forgive that. Henry Rosenbush in Tuscaloosa, one our more regular copy editors, is doing his best to catch my mistakes so I can fix them ASAP.

You can follow his blogging at Rosenbush.Cafe.Com.

Looks like you are having a blast.

That Cherry Hill was a find. Sauna, hot tub, big screen TV, a tour in from Key West and a bus load of college girls from London.

Great place to get it all together and a break from the federal primitive campgrounds (like the free one's along the Potomac), and the cheap state parks. They called this one a "five star campground."

After checking out a couple of state park options in Pennsylvania for Monday night, I decided the time and gas were just as well spent going straight into Manhattan. Picked up a former student from an ethics conference on the West side, then headed over the Brooklyn Bridge to Coney Island, where I just had a delicious Herbs and Feta Cheese Omelet.

The night was near perfect, although the summer crowds are long gone from the beach. It was, believe it or not, a tad warmer than either Virginia or Tennessee the past few nights.

It's a small apartment on a nice street, but I believe it may be a tad bigger than the old place at Henry Apartments in Tuscaloosa : )

I even found a parking spot two blocks away, a metered space, but we dropped the canoe and everything else off here first. I don't know if they would steal a canoe off a van here or not, but MB didn't want to take a chance : )

Hey, I may even get it in the water up here...

Now for a couple of hours sleep before I have to go move the car and find a non-metered spot when someone goes to work : (