Well, we’re back from visiting my folks in Delaware, and here are a few photos from our trip of cool things and places we saw:
A 'Futuro' house in Milton, Delaware. Sometimes listed as being in nearby Lewes, Delaware.
I did some research on the net and found out that this is a ‘Futuro’ house. Futuro houses were designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1965 at the request of Dr. Jaakko Hiidenkari, who wanted a ‘sky cabin’. The first one was produced in March,1968; and the design was finally christened the ‘Futuro’ home in October, 1968, when the third one was shown in London, England. Only 20 were produced in Finland between 1968 and 1978, but there were different manufacturers in different countries. But according to estimates, less than 100 of these still exist, total, around the world. Check out more at Futuro-House.net, a website by a Futuro house owner in Illinois who is trying to document the remaining houses world-wide. It’s a website by someone who isn’t a programmer, but he is dedicated! Check out the list of Futuro house locations he has on his site and see if one is near you….
Street sign for 'Nine Foot Rd', also known as DE 26, where it intersects with US 113, just west of Dagsboro DE.
The area around the Cheasapeake Bay and the Delaware / Maryland seaboard seems to be full of odd road and place names. There was one sign in Maryland on US 113 that pointed west for ‘Bishop’ and east for ‘Bishopville’. Another town was named ‘Gumboro’. We found roads with names like ‘Nine Foot’, ‘Dead End’, ‘Peerless’, ‘Deer Park’, ‘Hotel’, ‘Cat Mans’, and ‘Lazy Lagoon’. It was quite fun to keep an eye out for what odd name we’d find next.
Mural on the front of 'Go Fish', Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Go Fishis a wonderful restaurant in Rehoboth Beach, DE. They serve fantastic British-style fish and chips. This year, they went ‘green’ and are now powered by solar panels on the roof of the building. Here’s a picture, from last years trip, showing the whole building:
Go Fish restaurant in Rehoboth Beach DE, July, 2009.
You can’t see the cool mural (see first picture) in this view, but you can see the big fish shaped sign, and – my favorite part – the ‘telephone booth’ door on the left (which leads to offices on the upper floors).
Wild horses on Assateague Island MD, June 2009.
And last, but not least, the wild horses of Assateague Island, MD. These are the horses on the Maryland section of the island (the southern tip is in Virginia) and they are truly wild. The park service simply monitor them, and work to prevent too much interaction between them and the tourists who come to the island. I actually sideswiped one with my car by accident one night we were there (the horse is fine with no injuries, the ranger checked!) Took out my passenger side mirror and headlight and made a dent, but so far as we know I didn’t even knock the horse over. [This is a story for another post - but short form: late at night, straggler from the group we just passed, around a bend, in the dark, in the road... but... I didn't even knock it down!]
Wild ponies on Assateague Island, MD, June 2009.
They are magnificent animals, though. I am very glad I didn’t injure the horse (everyone in the car was okay too!).
Peace,
Bekka
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