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| A ‘flight’ of ice cream INSANITY 😋 More on this treat later |
Erik had his usual early start to the day getting up at 4:30am and took the golf cart out to the post office to drop a couple post cards in the mailbox and swung by the beach to sit on a bench for some pre dawn relaxation. The decision was made to move today about 20 miles across to the other side of the Potomac and down a bit to Leonardtown MD in Breton Bay. We had heard good things about the small town and thought we’d add it to the list of towns visited. Additionally our AA app indicated that there was a meeting there at 11am that would be just over a mile bike ride to get to. After showering we untied the lines and headed out. We needed to get some fuel and Renee had researched where would be the best place (we always price around also look for only ethanol free gas) to determine that it would be at a marina right at the mouth of the bay as we left Colonial Beach. We were only planning to get about 30 gallons because it was 5.69 per gallon and we knew that further down the Potomac at the mouth of the Chesapeake we can fill up with fuel for 4.29 per gallon. The docking at the fuel dock proved to be the most challenging so far in the trip due to the tide going out creating a very strong current on the side of the boat at approach. It took 3 attempts to get successfully onto the dock and a similar number of colorful explicative words rolling off Erik’s frustrated tongue! 😜 After the fueling fiasco we were on our way out of the bay and headed across and down the wide river.
It was a fairly short 21 mile jaunt that had us docking at the free town docks (including electric!) in Leonardtown at 10:35am. We quickly got tied up and AC on and took the bikes down from the bow of the boat to head off into town to the 11am meeting. The google biking directions said mostly flat….they lie! The first several hundred yards out of the parking lot were up a very steep hill that we gave up pedaling on and walked our bikes up the second half of. We quickly rolled our way into the church parking lot arriving at exactly 11am. It was another good meeting that a young man shared his story at. The story and subsequent sharing by other members was just what we both needed.
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| Leonardtown is nestled on the banks of the very calm and beautiful Breton Bay |
We rode back to the boat to check on Riva and ensure that the electric breaker on the dock hadn’t tripped; it was pretty hot and humid by point in the day. Sandwiches and chips for lunch while cooling off for a few minutes and we headed back into town. We toured the historic town jail and a couple of other notable sites and then went into a few of the towns shops. All of that walking in the heat had our minds set on one of the local ice cream shops (farm to cone) we were told about back in DC by our fellow loopers aboard ‘Y-Not’.
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| Worth another few photos! ‘The Salted Scoop’ Our kind of joint! A ‘farm to cone’ ice cream shop boasting 45 creamy, delicious flavors to choose from Our flight included: Biscoff Cookie Butter (favorite) Coffee Crunch, Java Cookie, Salty Carmel Crunch, Chocoholic, and Rocky Mtn Road |
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| Some sites from around the town |
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| Local lore Legend of Moll Dyer And the Moll Stone |
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| Erik wants to build a set of these double Adirondack chairs with table He also agrees with the coffee cup slogan 🤣 |
We visited a couple other cute shops before heading back to the boat for a late afternoon siesta, relaxing, and dinner aboard. A fair number of people were milling around the town wharf and park enjoying the summer evening.
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| We love the great outdoors and exploring all of the nice places we visit BUT We do appreciate our recliners and cold AC on these hot afternoons! |
We debated on riding the bikes a little over 2 miles to go to the ‘Freedom Fest’ that was being held at the St Mary’s County fairgrounds and included a dog stunt show followed by fireworks but decided to stay put and relax more. Folks at the meeting earlier had told us that in addition to the hill coming up out of the wharf there would be several big hills on the ride to the fairgrounds and this didn’t sound any to appealing to us given that it was still pretty hot and humid.
As it turned out, from our slip at the free dock we had a pretty decent view of the display from the 2 mile vantage point across Breton Bay.
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