Lincoln is in a somewhat remote area of Delaware. There's not too much of interest nearby, but it is within driving distance of several ocean beaches. The closest of these is Rehoboth Beach, and one day we drove to a park-and-ride location and caught a shuttle there, since we'd heard that parking availability near the shore is extremely limited. Rehoboth Beach is a very long, straight beach - not the beautiful white sand of the Gulf of Mexico, but still attractive.
It is paralleled by a boardwalk a la Atlantic City, with lots of shops, restaurants, and hotels.
The beach area is pretty, and lively, but the traffic getting there is brutal. Nancy and I are not beach bunnies, so tourist attractions like that hold little appeal as an area where we'd like to settle down.
We had a hard time finding much of anything to do in the four days we were at the campground. There weren't any restaurants in the area that interested us. The landscapes in that part of Delaware were pleasant but didn't have the wooded grandeur we had loved in the Carolinas and Virginia.
The only museum nearby was the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover Air Force Base. It is dedicated to "military airlift and air refueling aircraft and the men and women who flew and maintained them." There was a good collection of the kind of airplanes that had been used for supplying and transporting goods and personnel in conflicts around the world. This is the B-17G, a bomber and transport used extensively in World War II.
And for those fascinated by airplane cockpits, this is a mockup of the control center of the C-17, the Air Force's newest strategic airlifter.
That was about all we found to do in Delaware for excitement. Until ...
On Sunday afternoon, a storm of biblical severity slammed us - the same one that caused the deadly flooding in Maryland that you may have seen in the news. The drumming on our motorhome roof was incredibly loud. Reportedly, at one end of the park the water rose to a couple of feet deep. It was probably a bit frightening for all those families in tents. I love a spectacular weather event, as long as we survive it and don't get wet, and I just hope this one didn't scare the kids.
Jefferson's home was one of our favorites too, a few years ago I met Cliff in Washington, D.C. and on our way to visit an old HS friend in Va, we spent the day at the Air/Space Museum by Dulles, not the branch Downtown, and it was fantastic .. if you return to the area, you should try & see it. Good luck with the weather..
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