Cambridge Maryland

Over the Choptank
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Update: We took the girls for a short flight down to Cambridge for lunch. Gotta love technology - I sent a photo of my training buddy Dave's house to him from the air captioned "I C U" and got an email reply before we even touched down! The restaurant at the Cambridge airport there is unexpectedly great! I had a crab melt and some wonderful old-fashioned layer cake with chocolate buttercream icing for dessert.

Looking at this shot of the Choptank River it's hard to believe that I once swam double the distance from the bridge to the first peninsula directly above the center of the bridge, but I did it once for Chesapeakeman - and may do it again if they don't change the course because of the tides on race day. That peninsula is where the Eagleman half Ironman is based in June.

Sunny flight to Cambridge

We took the opportunity on a beautiful calm day to fly with our girls 32 miles from Easton down south to Cambridge.

Elisabeth wasn't thrilled about the idea - she tried to escape back into the minivan to GO HOME!

Catherine, however, thought it was wonderfully fun!

A view of the bridge over the Miles River not far from our house. We didn't fly very close to St. Michaels because it has a no-fly area over the house of the vice president. Not sure it it still applies to Rumsfeld's house nearby!

Another view of the same bridge.

The Oak Creek bridge (right - center) that I drive over every weekday to take Elisabeth to school. Yes, cycling over that is one of the only hills in the entire county! Can you see why I don't do many hilly events?

In Cambridge, the point of land in the center below is the transition area for Eagleman half Ironman, and T1 for Chesapeakeman.

Another view of downtown Cambridge and the Choptank River.

We had a lovely lunch at the Cambridge airport with the girls - surprisingly yummy crabcakes and excellent homestyle cake - and then flew back!


Landing in Easton again!