C & D Canal to Cape May
We departed Baltimore on May 31, our destination, the small Victorian town of Chesapeake City. While there, we toured the very well done C & D Canal Museum highlighting the original pump house and water wheel, built in 1837 to fill and empty the old locks. The locks were eliminated in the mid 1920’s and we had a smooth transit through the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. Our next stop was Philadelphia where Bob and Chris Keeler drove down from their home in Reading to meet us for dinner. They had selected a fabulous Italian Restaurant near the marina. It was a delightful evening and a highlight of our stay in “The City of Brotherly Love”. We visited some of the historical sights of Philadelphia among them, the Liberty Bell, Independence Square and Congress Hall, Betsy Ross’s house and Elfreth’s Alley, said to be the oldest residential street in the Country. 
We enjoyed our stay in Philadelphia and departed on June 3rd for the trip back down the Delaware River. Our intended destination was Cape May, New Jersey but the weather changed and the wind picked up in the afternoon so we deviated up the Cohansey River to a very small town, Greenwich, NJ. As we headed up the Cohansey River, we felt we could have been in Georgia or South Carolina with the salt marsh and wooded setting; we were in Eagle Country and spotted a number of Eagles sitting along the banks of the river. Greenwich is truly a town which time has forgotten. Their claim to fame is the burning of a load of tea to protest British taxation, December 22, 1774. The marina owner himself told Harry “we don’t like change here” and we were certain it was true. He loaned us his golf cart to go into town for breakfast at Tom & Mabel’s General Store, the building itself was 150 years old, breakfast was prepared to order by Tom himself. This truly was a step back in time and we wondered if any of our friends from New Jersey had ever heard of Greenwich, NJ.
. We are currently in Cape May, New Jersey awaiting better weather. We are fortunate that we will be here for the World War II Weekend with many events scheduled commemorating the role of Cape May in defense of our Country and a tribute to the World War II Veterans.
