# Have you ever stepped on Delaware? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 7, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402 "2012-06-07T17:07:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/1 "2012-06-07T17:07:45Z")
Not enough to have driven thru, or been in an airport. Did you get your feet (shoes or not) on Delaware’s dirt, grass, snow, mud, or other natural footing? ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/2 "2012-06-07T17:09:40Z")
Yes. One of my clients was the Proctor and Gamble plant in Dover. I have been there for all four seasons. As a native Southerner, I was quite surprised to see how pleasantly rural the majority of state appeared to be. Beautiful marshes. I’ll bet the fishing is great there. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/3 "2012-06-07T17:11:21Z")
I want to fly fish there. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/4 "2012-06-07T17:13:36Z")
Blast from the past: the “Resolved: Delaware Does Not Exist” thread. [Link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=35621) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/5 "2012-06-07T17:18:40Z")
I’ve been to the beach at Fenwick Island, just north of Ocean City, MD. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/6 "2012-06-07T17:18:52Z")
Many times. It would have been more, but one day it was[closed](http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6686277&mesg_id=6687227). ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/7 "2012-06-07T17:18:52Z")
I voted yes, but no, not dirt, grass, snow, or mud. We got out at a McDonald’s parking lot and went in to pee. We were driving from Maryland to Maryland. That was this past Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/8 "2012-06-07T17:24:28Z")
I’m a big fan of Delaware’s beaches. I like big boardwalks with greasy pizza and french fries and salt water taffy and skee ball and souvenir shops and ferris wheels and what not. Generally, if I can go to the beach without touching sand or saltwater, I’m happy. Also, outlet malls. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/9 "2012-06-07T17:25:56Z")
Just this morning, as I live there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/10 "2012-06-07T17:29:03Z")
> [@BetsQ](#): > > I’m a big fan of Delaware’s beaches. I like big boardwalks with greasy pizza and french fries and salt water taffy and skee ball and souvenir shops and ferris wheels and what not. Generally, if I can go to the beach without touching sand or saltwater, I’m happy. Also, outlet malls. I love Rehoboth Beach. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/11 "2012-06-07T17:30:12Z")
I spent a day at [Tri State Bird Rehab facility.](http://www.tristatebird.org/) Cool place. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/12 "2012-06-07T17:30:34Z")
I used to take the Cape May-Lewes ferry regularly so I could avoid having to drive around the Capital beltway. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/13 "2012-06-07T17:42:57Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > Just this morning, as I live there. > > 🙂 No one lives in Delaware. I’ve been there a number of times. My brother is in school there so I’ve stayed with him. Oddly enough, though I live in Maryland, Delaware was the last state of the lower 48 I rode my motorcycle to. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/14 "2012-06-07T17:45:21Z")
Driving back from Philadelphia one time, I gassed up in Wilmington, I think. ---
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/15 "2012-06-07T17:48:23Z")
I was at a Bugaboo creek steakhouse near Newark earlier this year. Also went to the Christiana Mall. I remember one night in college when we drove to [Middletown, Delaware](https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=glassboro+nj&daddr=middletown+de&hl=en&ll=39.628961,-75.425262&spn=0.503463,0.883026&safe=off&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb&dirflg=d&geocode=FWzRXQIdXuKF-ynFXYStq9fGiTECAPf1RIl2Ww%3BFdTzWQIdH6l8-ynpgjmdzwvHiTHCUCBt5PadQg&t=h&z=10) just for dinner at a Waffle House. We had to go into a Food Lion to ask for directions. Turns out it was just across the parking lot hidden behind a Wawa. I’ve taken the [Cape May - Lewis Ferry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_May_%E2%80%93_Lewes_Ferry) many times as a kid with my parents on the way to Crisfield, Maryland for our annual Labor Day weekend camping trip. One time we took the ferry over and went to [Rehoboth Beach](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehoboth_Beach,_Delaware). Also visited the University of Delaware while in high school. Ended up applying and getting accepted there, but decided to save some money by going to an in-state (New Jersey) school. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/16 "2012-06-07T18:13:42Z")
I’m not sure. I know I’ve been through it several times in a car or bus, but can’t recall if I ever got out for a rest stop and actually put my feet on the Delaware earth (or pavement). ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/17 "2012-06-07T18:21:52Z")
Spent a week in Lewes a couple years ago. Stayed at an [awesome B&B](http://lewes-beach.com/). Nice, quiet little beach town. Much less crowded than the beaches further south down the coast. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/18 "2012-06-07T18:35:45Z")
Any other DE dopers other than me? Bueller? Bueller? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/19 "2012-06-07T18:39:20Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Spent a week in Lewes a couple years ago. Stayed at an [awesome B&B](http://lewes-beach.com/). Nice, quiet little beach town. Much less crowded than the beaches further south down the coast. That looks awesome. If I didn’t already have my summer vacation booked… ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402/20 "2012-06-07T18:43:19Z")
Delaware is great. The best thing about it is, no sales tax. If something costs .99 cents you will get a penny back. Love Rehoboth Beach - Grotto’s pizza is addicting. The further south you go the more rural it bomes and is often referred to as Slower Lower Delaware. It’s the First State so give it a try. Side note: in the 80’s it was against the law to sell alcohol on Sunday so we would drive 30 minutes south to OC, MD and they knew it because there was a beer store right over the state line. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stepped-on-delaware/624402.md?page=2)