Hello, Mozie!
Indeed ... just this last winter alone she was going to bike through New Mexico ... bike through Germany ... she was going to go to Mexico and camp in remote villages ... move to Harlem and compile a photo journal ...
Instead ... she just returned from Ocean City. LOL!
You mentioned zoos when talking about your vacation. The one thing this stupid state has been able to accomplish it to build a truly wondrous zoo! Not too big, nor small ... very user-friendly. Just nice.
Zoos generally depress the dickens out of me ... but not this one.
There is also the Baltimore Aquarium ... which is really amazing ... built so that the fish are contained in plexiglass with "shoots" which carry them up and over you ... all about ... as if you are being swarmed by squid. Kinda unsettling ... while interesting.