Day 1 Solomons to Bordentown

We started our driving trip to New England by stopping for lunch at the Tidewater Grille in Havre de Grace Maryland. It's an on-the-water restaurant that serves a fairly decent crab cake. Lunch was fine and we continued up 95 to Bordentown, NJ. The reason we picked Bordentown was that a hundred years ago I spent one miserable year at Bordentown Military Academy prep school and I hadn't been back since. The town at that time was a small worn-out old town comprised of a drug store, a movie theater, and several small dilapidated bars. The school burned down shortly after I left (I'm completely innocent) and was never rebuilt. The first thing we did upon arriving was check in at an EconoLodge flop house and head straight downtown. Instead of a crappy old town, we found ourselves in a charming Federal style village with many restaurants, shops and beautiful old buildings and homes. Totally surprised, we spent the rest of the afternoon and evening wandering around Bordentown. A stop in Jester's Cafe lasted several hours as we chatted with some locals that remembered the school and what the town was like in the sixties. We had dinner there and really enjoyed ourselves before heading back to our flop house, but not before stopping in at Chickie's and Pete's for a nightcap.