Many people want to visit Frederick, MD. I discovered this after living here for about a month, as springtime was peaking. I'm told this should not have been surprising: Frederick, the second-largest city in Maryland behind Baltimore, is an easy day trip from that city; Washington, DC; and
It's a lot easier to review a hotel room than a campsite because hotel rooms mostly exist on a nice to gross spectrum that most people can agree on. No one is desiring a hotel with shared bathrooms and a broken air conditioner. Same thing at the other
About two miles down the road from Seneca Pines Lodge is another, much larger motel. This one, literally in the shadow of Seneca Rocks, the area's main tourist attraction, is abandoned. It's a sad sight: cracked satellite dishes overgrown with moss; peeling, fading paint; an empty