Day 44 - Sponsored by Leslie Wolman

Some of the towns along the Chesapeake Byway date back to the mid-seventeen hundreds, and boasts beautiful colonial and Victorian homes and historic government buildings. Between these historic towns, the Chesapeake Byway traverses through long stretches of farmland, producing endless fields of corn stalks and soybean crops. Many of the field-crops were marked with cardboard signs, indicating the type or variety of produce it is growing. Other businesses along the route, advertised fresh crabs baited from local waters on Maryland's eastern shores.

The flat and lowlands with idyllic maritime hamlets, settled alongside waterways for local trade, was somewhat reminiscent of Holland. A gusty Northerly wind was blowing in my face. If only this would be a tail wind I could really cover some grounds in a short amount of time, but instead I was pushing slowly forward into a head wind, mostly induced by a fleeing hurricane Fred. The route today went from Centreville, a town depicted in the novel Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings, to Chestertown and Chesapeake City where I originally had planned to spend the night. As the weather deteriorated, and still being one day behind schedule, I felt the urge to travel beyond my final destination, and found a warm welcome some twenty miles further North, at the home of Leslie, Molly and Avi, wonderful and hospitable relatives, in Oxford, Pennsylvania.