For Labor Day weekend we are going camping at the Solomons, formally known as the Navy Recreation Center Solomons. It is located on the Patuxent River near the Chesapeake Bay and is only about 90 minutes away from Washington DC.
Every time I hear about the Solomons I think of the Berkowitzes and the Moose, part of a Woody Allen stand-up routine from the 1960s, but I digress.
A couple months ago we camped overnight in a local park to introduce our daughter to camping, so this time it should be nicer without the police sirens. Like many recreation areas open only to service members and DoD contractors, the Solomons recreational area is located on a military base. In this case the base is the Naval Surface Weapons Center, a site of much amphibious landing training in preparation for D-Day. It has an ominous sound to it but if you look at the Google terrain map you can spot the RV’ers. They appear to be harmless.
We once stayed at the Pacific Missile Range Facility, known as Barking Sands, on the island of Kauai. It was great: They had several beach cottages for rent and the missiles were decorated to look like palm trees.
Just kidding, but when the U.S. shot down that errant satellite a few months ago it must have been one helluva wake-up for the people in the cottages or hanging out on the beach when the missile launched.
We anticipate no such excitment this weekend. The Navy searched part of the site for unexploded munitions last year and found nothing.
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