Article: Maryland; Different Strokes in Carroll County

WE HAD NEGOTIATED AN itinerary for our long-awaited getaway after careful study of a stack of brochures and more than a few phone calls. It hadn't been easy. Our plan was the kind of compromise that keeps a marriage healthy and suspenseful.

My own tastes are for rock-and-roll and hamburgers; my wife, Laura, prefers Bruckner's Seventh Symphony and filet with bearnaise sauce. You get the idea. "Look," she'd say, eagerly holding up a brochure. "A 19th-century plantation that offers a five-course gourmet dinner!" "Yes, but what is there to do there?" I'd ask. We'd reached an uneasy truce in the battle of the brochures with a decision to go to a place I liked, then to a place she liked, then ...

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