Back on our bikes, the trail picks up the features that we have become familiar with. Turtles sunning themselves, in the bright light. Deer running in the canal and crossing the path to get down to the river. Baked ruts of mud requiring care as we roll by. The ride can be difficult to dress […]

After breakfast at the Desert Rose Cafe in Williamsport, a tiny quaint town with well-kept buildings, we were fueled for the day ahead not that we thought it would be a strenuous one. After all, we were told it would be 27 miles from Williamsport to Shepherdstown. And it was along the trail. How tough […]

After a fabulous breakfast (that will be discussed in a different post) we and the rest of the bikers staying at the Town Hill B&B got loaded up in the shuttle van and driven back to the trail, which was 6 miles away. A few of the group (not us) thought it might be fun […]

One of the unexpected pleasures of our trip was staying at the Town Hill Hotel B&B. It is an historic hotel nestled on a ridge in western Maryland that overlooks three states and seven counties. Our host, Dave, pointed out to us where we came from and a notch cut out of a mountain that […]

We find a campsite with picnic tables at Bonds Landing in the Green Ridge State Forest to rest and have a nice lunch after bouncing in a van for the last 40 minutes or so. In this section of the park, there is a couple of hundred yard expanse between the canal and river so […]

The night we finished the GAP Trail we slept well and and in the morning were looking forward to attacking the C&O Canal towpath. Built in the early 1800s and used for nearly a century, the C&O was the lifeline of communities from Cumberland to Washington D.C. transporting farm and finished goods as well as […]

We have arrived at the Continental Divide and through dumb luck, a lone biker named Joe agreed to take our picture forcing Ted to abandon his efforts at setting up a selfie stick. As he said smiling, “It’s all downhill from here,” we too smiled realizing that our long uphill slog was over. We have […]

After we left the Pinkerton tunnel the rain started in earnest and a combination of intensity and lack of leaf cover required us to get on our rain jackets. Even though the temperature was in the 60s, neither of us were chilled and we continued our journey. It’s a different experience bicycling in the rain. […]

We made it! Yesterday around 5:30 pm under cloudy skies we pulled into Cumberland, MD, and found the origination point of the GAP. It felt great to have finished today’s 61-mile leg and the entire 150-mile length of the trail sans major (or even minor) mishaps. We knew we were going to get wet when […]

Prior to Erik and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, in my mind I was being a bit of a wet blanket. Not about the trip or the fun we would have but about the rain. For most of May, the Northeast was pummeled with it. A sunny day seemed about as rare as hen’s teeth (or someone […]