It was an ordinary day. Trying to figure out when it might be safe enough to head towards the Chesapeake Bay area for lunch. Seems like it's been forever that I have been locked up in my house and not able to travel or go out to eat due to COVID. Spring will be upon us in another couple of days and I have decided that I no longer want to be boarded up in my new home in Lancaster. One of my wife's and myself's favorite places to enjoy lunch is in the town known as Chesapeake City, Maryland. It is about an hour drive from Lancaster, Pennsylvania taking mostly back roads. The scenery features farmland, waterways and country houses. A quiet, easy drive with very little traffic. I have written in the past about some of the small towns that we must go through in order to reach Chesapeake City. I'm assuming they are just as interesting as they used to be a few years ago when COVID arrived and we stopped our travels to the south. Over the past 50 years or so I have attempted a variety of different trails in order to get to Chesapeake City, Maryland. Each one is slightly different with a few different small towns to go through along the way. One of our favorite restaurants in Chesapeake City is The Bayard House which sits along The C&D Canal. It is really neat to sit along the windows of the restaurant and watch the large ships maneuver through the Canal as you eat lunch. The food is great and the company is always interesting, but the view of the canal with its traffic is the neatest part of the meal. I'm assuming that there aren't too many places that you can eat a meal while you watch a huge ship travel down the canal, passing under the nearby bridge. At times we have eaten our lunch at the Chesapeake Inn which also sets along the canal, but about 50 yards from the water. It too has tables along the water, but it is a bit harder to see the boats as well as it is from the Bayard House Restaurant. Then, there is another restaurant on the opposite side of the canal which is known as Schaeffer's Canal House. That too is just as much fun to eat at to watch the ships, but we enjoy the food more at the other two restaurants. Shaeffer's does allow you to eat outside under umbrellas and get a close-up view of the ships, but we still find the Chesapeake Inn to be our favorite. I am hoping that in the next few weeks we will be able to return to the Chesapeake Inn to enjoy a great meal and see the boats maneuver up and down the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.
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