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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