Travels with Zendo: Annapolis, MD

We left Rock Hall after a leisurely morning on Monday, September 30 and headed back across the Chesapeake Bay to Annapolis. We had another fine weather day - warm and sunny with smooth seas - boating at its best. After about two and a half hours, we entered the Annapolis Harbor mooring field and were told by the dock master that they were full due to the upcoming Annapolis Boat Show. We decided to try our luck and cruised up and down the mooring field and at last, lo and behold, we found an empty mooring ball! We snagged the last mooring that had just been released and it was in a great location. We were surrounded by boats, mostly sailboats, some trawlers and a few mega yachts, the largest one being right in front of us!

We dinghied into town to start exploring. Annapolis is such a beautiful historic small city. It was great to be back there.

After reading reviews of the million restaurants in town, we decided to go to the Boatyard in Eastport, just across the water. It was reported to have the BEST crab cakes in Maryland and a great happy hour. So we dinghied five minutes over to Eastport just in time for happy hour. As it turned out, the crab cakes and the happy hour proved to be as good as they said. Apparently, Michelle Obama declared them to be the best she’s ever had and we have to agree that they were excellent!

The next morning Jonny went to another health clinic because his ear, that had been bothering him for weeks, was still not better even though he had already seen a doctor. Lynn and Cathy checked out a number of nice shops in town and scouted out a lovely French restaurant for lunch. Jonny met us there and we had a very delicious lunch of soft shell crabs and a bottle of rose’ wine!

After lunch we headed over to the United States Naval Academy where we participated in an excellent tour. We had a delightfully enthusiastic multi-lingual guide who showed us everything she could and regaled us with interesting facts, lots of history and entertaining anecdotes about this storied academy. The grounds were beautiful and the facilities were outstanding. We even saw a plaque with Cathy’s great uncle’s name commemorating him and others who lost their lives fighting for our country (see the second name from the top on the last photo that follows).