One of my best friends lives there. I’ve stepped on grass, canoed, pounded the pavements.
Also had fun straddling the MD-DE border by the Fenwick Island lighthouse. The sidewalk is MD, the property beyond is DE.
Yeah, grew up in the DC area and Rehobeth was a popular destination. I got my Raquel Welch in the fur bikini poster on the boardwalk there.
I had to go to Newark for a meeting at the University. I ended up having breakfast in Philly and lunch somewhere in Maryland. I guess I probably peed in Delaware, though.
Biden’s grandpa was from Pennsylvania (as was Biden himself.)
Isn’t Biden originally from Scranton PA.?
Hell Yeah I have. My wife and I went to Punkin Chunkin last year!
Yes, indeed. My aunt has a condo in Bethany Beach. It is quite lovely (though the surf is surprisingly strong…)
Drove through it or flew over it many times; never stopped.
Is there any trace of the state’s Swedish history (Fort Christiana).
Of course, the Dutch chased them out a long time ago.
There is a Christiana Mall, but I suppose that may seem a wee bit less exciting than a real Swedish museum or anything like that.
I lived in Christiana between the ages of 6 and 15, and went to the little school there (not the one-room schoolhouse that’s there!), so from about 1971 (long before the Christiana Mall was built – which isn’t exactly in the little town itself.)* I recall when we moved there, there was no postal delivery; we had to go to this lady’s house; she had the post office pretty much in her front room. Anyone who drives through that area now is shunted along on the ‘Christiana by-pass’ which, at its intersection on Old Baltimore Pike, goes through what was our living room 
I worked on the HABS/HAER project for a little while as a work-study student in college, and there are one or two places extant still connected to Delaware’s Swedish heritage. I’m no expert in what’s still standing or open to the public, etc., though, sorry.
*Long before the Mall, and that nightmarish tangle of roads all around in there, Rte 7 went straight from Christiana into Stanton, and where the turnpike went over it, the speed limit and the quality of road surface went up. No big deal to me as a kid, but my brothers and their buddies used to like drag racing through there at night.
The impetus for the by-pass and the Mall was the Christiana hospital; its creation really affected the landscape and population growth all around there. I’ll have to ask my mother; she worked at the hospital in Wilmington for a long time, and was really glad when the new one opened up because it was closer to home…until home got demolished, of course.
I still find it hilarious knowing what’s under some of the posh hotels and restaurants in that area – there was an expensive hotel for a while on what had been our near neighbor’s pig farm, and there was another restaurant out near the hospital that was built on top of the old garbage dump that had been there. (The restaurant is gone, but there’s a hotel there now.)
Nope. The closest I’ve come is sitting in a train at the Amtrak station in Wilmington, en route from Washington to New York.
Been through the C&D Canal, twice. Bought beer at Chesapeake City.
I have to know, how the fuck did you miss by that much? Hagerstown is in the Western part of the state.
I have:
–hiked in a Delaware state park
–attended a professional baseball game in Delaware
–hung out for a spell at an excellent highway rest stop in Delaware
–eaten at a couple of very good restaurants (Roadfood type) in Delaware
and
–“climbed” to the highest point in Delaware.
So, I’d say Yes.
I *think *I’ve been to “Delaware.”
Spent a nice weekend at Rehobeth Beach (sp?).
Took Mom and Littlebro to see the Winterthur Gardens, when they visited me in Philadelphia. Went over the Brandywine River to get there, giving Littlebro an almost-terminal fangasm.
I, too, will admit to being a resident of the fine state of DE. Born in Wilmington, lived in Newark my whole life (except for a brief stay in PA for grad school).
As far as Swedish history in DE, there is a small park related to Fort Christina, but all there is is a monument. However, next door is the excellent Kalmar Nyckel, a working recreation of the ship that brought the Swedish settlers to North America.
I have good friends in Delaware and have visited them many times.
yes, as I once went to Newark Assembly Plant when it was still open.