Victorian Hangover
If you think Delaware is a whole other time zone, you could just be right. At least as far as some parts of Rehoboth Beach are concerned, that's acutely true. These guys are still living in the British and Dutch Colonial era.
After spending the entire morning and afternoon checking out the beach scene and the other attractions in Rehoboth Beach, my legs were killing me. It was way past time for lunch anyway, so I was cruising around, looking for a good place to eat. Bumped into the Boardwalk Plaza Hotel, and it was the outdoor patio dining on the boardwalk that stopped me.
The restaurant inside seemed like a nice enough place. Full view of the Atlantic, and not like those cheesy cafes where you can sit for hours but the food is atrocious. This place - aptly named Victoria's Restaurant - looked like a place where people actually came for the food. I was digging the whole wayback-time machine thing by now, so I ordered everything that looked like something a crabby British Royal might enjoy - Started with Victoria's Cream of Crab Soup, and moved on to Victoria's Crab Melt - all jumbo lump crab imperial baked in a french bread boule and topped with tomato, applewood-smoked bacon and aged cheddar, served with a field greens salad with honey-ginger vinaigrette. It was delicious, and well worth the 16 dollars.
Sine I was going to need a place to stay, and I was inside the hotel anyway, I asked about the room rates. Nothing below $300. Apparently summer rates at the Boardwalk Plaza are not for people who have a hole in their pocket. I skipped out when the guy at the counter asked me if I would like an Ocean-front suite or a Ocean-view suite.
Don't let anyone tell you that poverty or frugal living is an adventure. It's painful - I'd just had a full meal after a tiring day, and all I wanted to do was take a shower and then take a nice nap on a nice bed. I asked if they had a room below $100, and the smart-ass counter clerks looks me up and down and sniffs hard and his eyes go vacant - like I don't exist, and he's looking at something behind me. So now I'd have to go check out the cheap Rehoboth Beach motels and find something which wouldn't kill my budget plan on the second day itself.
I did manage to find a nice motel - the Oceanus Motel - just 2 blocks from the beach, $79 and had everything that was needed, including free coffee, wifi and a refrigirator. Had a pool too. I had planned to spend one more night in Rehoboth Beach, but I changed my mind now. Tommorow, I'll rip across Virginia without stopping and aim to touchdown straight at my next base - Nags Head - by evening.
