Maryland

With time to kill, I stopped a couple places, including this quaint little town off of I-70, the name of which I have forgotten if indeed I ever knew it. It was mainly a little street of antique stores and old buildings, most of which were closed. While waiting for their public restrooms to open, I wandered around a block of it, onto a barely-paved back road and found a little cemetery.

The map above shows my route of travel across the north of Maryland, on I-70, and later I-68. The following sequence is from my approach to the Sideling Hill road cut, a vast and geologically impressive slice out of the mountain to allow I-68 to pass through. It becomes visible while you're still on I-70, and looms larger and larger as you approach.

Just before the road goes through the mountain, there is a rest stop with a museum. It has displays on both the geologic and human history of the mountain, and stuffed examples of several sorts of local wildlife. Note the rock strata that curve downwards at the center of the cut.

Later on, passing through Oakland, Md, I stopped in at a Walmart, and came back out to find it snowing.

In this location Carmen Sandiego would probably steal: Sideling Hill