We made one last attempt to see the wild ponies before leaving Assateague and once again they eluded us. We found one of the park service corrals with three ponies inside but no ponies in the wild. We even stopped where some cars were pulled off the road thinking they had spotted the elusive ponies – nothing. At the visitor center a gentleman asked Nancy if we were the folks from Washington and had we seen the ponies. He had been in one of the cars pulled off the road and recognized us from the van. Indeed, the ponies had been there, in the trees as we suspected but out of our field of vision, perhaps a visit to the eye doctor is in order when we return home.
Onward, North Carolina and the Outer Banks await. The soybean fields gave way to cotton fields and the temperature continued in the high 60's, perhaps reaching 70. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel carried us from the eastern shore of the Chesapeake into Virgin ...Read the full article