Moon Handbooks Chesapeake Bay

Moon Handbooks

by Joanne Orion Miller, Julian Smith

Packed with maps, photographs, suggested itineraries, travel strategies, and selective lists highlighting the best sights, restaurants, and hotels, Moon Handbooks Chesapeake Bay is the essential companion to this haven for aquatic enthusiasts, history buffs, and outdoor lovers. Boaters will relish the information on the Chesapeake's many waterways, including tips on good marinas and dockages, while outdoor aficionados will love the details on exclusive scenic drives, bike tours, kayaking, and birding opportunities. Author Joanne Miller, with Julian Smith, gives exclusive insight on a wide range of destinations for all personalities and budgets, including offbeat destinations in Baltimore and along the Eastern Shore. Whether you're interested in exploring the streets of Colonial Williamsburg or soaking up the sun on Virginia Beach, you'll find the best of the Chesapeake Bay in this new handbook.

200 pages, Paperback

First published March 30, 2004

About the author

Joanne's first memory of traveling was watching the desert roll by as she pulled herself up to the window of her dad's Oldsmobile. It's no surprise that six of her books are about U.S. travel and history. Mom finally put her foot down and the family settled into a suburb of San Francisco, leading to another great love: the city by the bay. Childhood was spent listening (quietly, to stay under her brother's "MOM! radar") to the Fairmont Hotel's jazz broadcast ("Home of the Tonga Room!") when she was supposed to be asleep.
These influences, along with an unnerving fascination with dead people who historically lived large outside the norm (Bach, Van Gogh, Coco Chanel to name a few) led to finding Miss Tess Wall, the notorious San Francisco madame who inspired her first novel Shaketown: The Madam's Daughter.
Joanne continues to travel and write about it; her blog 1Woman1World1Year covers her travels around the world and locally. No sequel to Shaketown is in the works, but a "rural romance", Harvest is almost complete, as is a psychological thriller, Power Lessons that asks the question, "What would you do to forget the worst thing that ever happened to you? How about the worst thing you've ever done?"