mllelaurel

...Going to Delaware is never fun.

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*hugs* You're going to be fine.

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Perhaps. On the plus side, there's a convention as a reward for the drive.

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Delaware is nice.

(says the native)

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The landscape is beautiful. People near the beach and in the north are nice.

(says the native)

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...now I'm jealous. Where in Delaware?

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Rehoboth Beach. ...If I spelled that right.

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OH. Yes, and cool. Rehobeth is a neat area. Go to the Frog Pond!

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I'll note that. Doubt I'd have much time to explore, though. Like I said - convention.

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I've never really spent much time in Slower Delaware. My concept of Delaware stops at the Canal (except for a few brief high-school-athletic excursions to St. Andrews).

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Ah. And my idea of Delaware stops at the canal too! Just from the opposite direction. New Castle gets lumped with Southern PA in my head.

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Hee. I had to be more granular, since southern PA started about 500 feet from my parents' house.

I've still never been to Rehoboth, which is an abomination unto Nuggin to my godchild's mother, whose mother lives in Lewes. It's funny; I do a 1-hour commute each way daily in Massachusetts and I constantly ramble around central and western Mass, but the 1-or-so hour drive from Hockessin to Rehoboth has never been high on my radar screen.

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I add an apology for the "Slower DE" crack. I should recall that I *did* have relatives in Middletown and Townsend. Are you a Kenter or Sussexer?

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Oh no, I absolutely am with you on the slower lower DE. I'm in Florida now, but I'm from Sussex. Georgetown/Seaford/Laurel area. It's. very slow. I was telling someone last night that when I was growing up no one ever used the front door: the front door was for bad news or travelling salesmen. Everyone came to the back door. And the back door was never locked. So the neighbors would come in without knocking and start to inspect your housekeeping.

...I like old things and history but there is a time and place it is just too far.

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Lewes is cute! and Cape Henlopen with the old WW2 towers that you can walk in is neat.

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Hee. Old timey Southernisms. This is why, I'm now learning, so many Yankees think of Delaware as this weird mishmash of cultures, and yet still somehow Southern. And yet the Virginians I lived among for many years thought of Delaware as Yankee. Ahhhhh, well.

Godchild's father's family is from Seaford, which makes the fact that Godchild is being raised Jewish a special sort of thing...

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