On Saturday, August 15, we had a very short cruise down the Choptank River and up the Tred Avon River to Oxford, MD, pictured below. We walked the village and visited the shops and toured the Oxford Museum. The town was founded in 1683 and was a major shipping center for tobacco and then later wheat; now it is a sleepy waterman's town with quiet charm and great crab. We dined at Schooner's on the waterfront and then stopped at Highland Creamery for wonderful homemade ice cream.

On Sunday, August 16, we returned to our slip at Solomons and spent a week catching up on boat chores while plotting our trip south. On Monday, August 24 we cruised to Deltaville, VA and passed our friends, Dave and Laurie on M/V Shangri-La as they came out of the Potomac River and headed north. On Tuesday, August 25 we pulled into Portsmouth as Jim wanted the generator gauges fixed.