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behind walking those seventeen miles. predictable denouement as I wallow in two or four legs caused anyone
The likely assumption, based on my McClellanesque self-restraint: walking to bat an eye. Today, I shake my
local media footprint, nightly meeting is good exercise for both the body and head whenever I pass the “lake”

attendance, and instigatory whispers the brain. My fitbit is pleased with the sign erected by the Department
carelessly relayed to me, is that I am steps I have taken on the ADT and the of Natural Resources because
everywhere all the time because I intend endorphins released from being active every single native worth their
to run for office in 2022. Nope. Not out in nature get my mind right. Th is weight in grain calls this body
going to happen. You have my word method works whenever life deals me of water the Mill Pond due to
[and an unexpected George Michael a miserable hand. Try it sometime; just the adjacent existence of Crouse
reference. Wham!] While I would love make sure you don’t get run over and Mill over a century ago. I once
to see an actual Caroline Countian (not don’t step in anything undesirable on testified against that dubious

a Cross Keys resident, ahem) occupy the shoulder of a gravel road whilst on wording at a public DNR

the governor’s mansion in Annapolis, your own cathartic journey through hearing; the panel scoffed at the
or follow in the footsteps of Robert P. the weeds and wildflowers of Caroline suggestion and rudely sent me

Dean as state senator or my namesake County. away, also disregarding a request
grandfather as a multi-term county to add interpretive historical
With all of that off my chest and on
commissioner -- who by the way gave markers on the grounds. Huzzah,
the record, let’s review the route I took
this area considerable local autonomy bureaucracy. Huzzah, governance
as well as the flow of consciousness
through the adoption of Code Home from afar.
musings generated along the trail:
Rule and preserved our “Green Garden” • I’ll get off my soapbox for

landscape by initiating the Maryland • I started literally on the Crouse now and point out something
Agricultural Land Preservation Program Mill Pond bridge at Tuckahoe you may have never noticed
here -- I am not the Maryland version State Park. Visiting is always a on Crouse Mill Road heading
of Florida politician Lawton Chiles, bittersweet experience for me, towards Ridgely. On the right
who walked 1000 miles across his state as our family used to own and hand side of the road sits a
while campaigning (successfully, I might farm several signifi cant parcels family cemetery known as
add) for U.S. Senate in 1970. I am an here until the land was eminent Howard’s Hope with grave

unaffiliated voter if you were wondering domained to house a state markers dating back to at least
and a “little-l libertarian” if you actually correctional facility which did 1869. Though it is gated and

had to ask. not materialize and then the park obscured by vegetation, there is a
which of course ultimately did.
Shockingly, everything I’ve done clearly visible wooden cross and
When I was a boy we would ride
as it relates to historiography and some seating, believe it or not, so
our bikes there unaccompanied
informal lobbying over the years here visitors may respectfully pause
by adults and our cattle dogs

has been for my personal fulfillment and reflect on over a dozen grave
would follow. No proto-Karens

and your enjoyment. So, local cynics, markers. The burial site predates
said a word and no one with
here is your anti-climactic albeit the founding of Ridgely; locals
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