Aaron A. Wallace

Delaware is blessed with quite a bit of revolutionary history that is still largely intact and if you look in certain directions you can be transported back to the days of General Washington and Lafayette and the American Revolution. Sadly much of the riparian wilderness is deeply impacted by suburbanization and industrial development, directly behind the tree lined riverbank to the left are office buildings and industrial sites ranging from a lumbar yard to car repair. The house itself is hard to take a good photo of since it is maybe 10 feet from this section of the old capitol trail road and is about half a mile from an abandoned bridge and what looks like on google maps to be either some pretty built up squats or old houses without street access any longer, which is a shame this place could make the start of a very nice park. This region of Delaware, Stanton, seems to be one of the more interesting places, with lots of little out of the way corners, old houses, blue and brown ro...

I went on a walk on the Fourth of July, along the old creek road which I got to from the Rocky Run gate to Brandywine State park. This a good gate since it drops you off at the top of the valley and if you follow the path to the brandywine river you are roughly in the middle of the path along the river. if you turn right you have about a mile walk to the smith bridge parking lot and a walkway under Smith bridge road and onto the woodlawn property. As this all gets absorbed into the First State National Park hopefully there will be more money for trail development. You can easily put together walks of three miles to a dozen miles on the combined trails that make up Brandywine creek and Woodlawn. We got out early enough in the day that it wasn't oppressively hot but the grade at the beginning and end made it a bit of a slog.

On a Rare Friday off, August fifth, 2016, Christine and I went on a road trip to Turkey Point Lighthouse at the end of Elk Neck in Maryland. To access the lighthouse you have to drive to the end of state route 272 in Maryland which is about an hour drive (forty miles) away from Wilmington, Delaware. This is a great location to do drone filming and the walk is pretty easy and just under a mile, they even have two chemical toilets out by the lighthouse. We had to hustle to get to the lighthouse with usable sun, I am looking forward to going back in the fall, hopefully by then I will take some video and also not have to rush so much. There is a small path that leads off the western end of the lighthouse's meadow this leads down to the waters edge and back to the main trail, there are maybe three or four well secluded spots that were occupied by couples as Christine and I walked back to the car having lost the light for Cell Phone photography. When I get more video equipment I thin...