Category: deep creek lake

Sunday August 14, 2011

Lakeside adventures

by The Associated Press

By Lindsey Fleming

The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.

Aug. 14–STORY AND PHOTOS BY LINDSEY FLEMING THE DOMINION POST

THIS IS the third in a three-part series about day trips.

Traveling has become something of a ritual in responsibility for me. It seems I can’t go farther than the grocery store without a Garmin to guide me and a multitude of itineraries, back-up plans and emergency contacts in tow.

There was a time, about five years ago, when I traveled across the Atlantic, canceled my flight back home and happily roamed foreign lands months longer than expected — with not a checklist in site.

I don’t know what kind of voodoo magic burgeoning adulthood cast on me between now and then that makes planning out possible ventures on Google Maps’ street-view a requirement, but I aim to change it.

With that in mind, I decided to pick a place for my day trip and plan little else.

After a chat with my friend, I settled on the Deep Creek Lake area in Garrett County, Md. Not exactly a trek across the Amazon, true, but you gotta start somewhere. And a beautiful lake, only an hour away, with some of the easiest directions I’ve ever encountered, seemed a perfect first step.

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The author forgets to readjust her vacation vision to accommodate kids.

A friend of mine had just returned from vacation with her three kids and husband. ““How was it?” I asked her.

“It was a change of scenery,” she responded, trying to sound neutral while biting her tongue.

Ahh, I replied. I got it. Taking a vacation with kids is an experience entirely different than, say, getting away for a girls’ weekend or spending time away with your spouse….

…After the brutal July we just sweated through, I couldn’t wait to get away to Deep Creek Lake for a while. The average temperature tends to be at least 10 degrees cooler than in Baltimore; a sweater on August nights is almost a given in the mountains of Western Maryland. It can get hot and sunny during the day, but you can always escape into the woods during the heat of the day, and hike or bike under the cool canopy of 300-year-old trees. Sounds good, right?

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