The "An Adventure To Northeast, Maryland" Story

Sign of the World Famous Nautical-Goose

It was an ordinary day.  Our friends from State College, Pennsyl- vania, Jere and Sue arrived yesterday after visiting with their son Tony who lives in Wildwood, New Jersey.  Jere and Sue were high school classmates of mine and my wife Carol and I have been traveling together with them since 1999 when Jere and I both retired from the same school where we had graduated from as well as returned to teach at the high school.  

The Nauti-Goose can be seen from the air.

Our mission today it to head to the Chesapeake Bay Area for lunch and a bit of conversa- tion about our upcoming trip we had just planned to the island of Antigua in the Caribbean.  We decided to try a restaurant in North East, Maryland named the Nauti Goose which, according to a billboard along Maryland SR272 is World Famous!  

We sat under the blue tarp on the left of this photo.

The day was extremely hot, but we wanted to sit outside on their deck overlooking the water.  We were ushered to a table in the shade and our order was taken.  To the side of the restaurant is the North East Community Park that today is filled with perhaps a hundred or more Chevolet Chevelles, since today is their 32nd Annual Atlantic Chevelle Show & Swap Meet.  

The entertainment for the afternoon meal.

To accompany our meal was a lone guitarist whose microphone was set to loud and made it tough to talk, let alone eat.  The location is always great with boats arriving and departing, but today the music ruined a good meal.  We finished, without dessert, and headed north a few blocks to the town of Northeast where I have sold my altered Polaroids and a few stained glass pieces for years.  

A few of the Chevelles from the car show.

The girls had a shopping agenda which Jere and I weren't part of so he and I wandered to the large multi-floor antique store.  Always fun to see what we might find that our parents may have thrown out and might resurface once again.  The antique store helped us relive our youth from the late 1940s to the late 1960s.  Item after item brought back so many memories for the two of us who lived only a long city block away from each other while growing up.  

The 5 & 10 Antique Market on Main Street.

We walked out of the shop over half an hour later with more memories from the past; certainly not needing to repurchase something that had already been discarded years ago.  Jere and I head back to the car where we found some empty Adirondock chairs to relax in until our better halves arrived with a few of the items they had planned to purchase.  Life is good no matter what your age.  Appreciate it while you can for it will inevitably disappear at some point in your life.  Always does, you know!  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.