The picture on the cover of the magazine is of the Paw Paw Tunnel (alt wiki), part of the C&O Canal, that runs from Cumberland, Maryland, to Washington, D.C., a total of 184 miles. There's a secondary part, the Great Allegheny Passage, that goes another 150 miles through the mountains between Pittsburgh and Cumberland, but I think I can forgo that much riding during a family trip. We had already been discussing our family vacation for this summer or fall and I was leaning strongly in favor of a driving trip to D.C. I'm now convinced it was fate guiding me - that I am destined to haul my bike along on the back of our compact car and spend two days pedaling across Maryland, West Virginia (where I can see the heritage of my coworker, Christy Twofist), Virginia and Washington, D.C. (pdf map). The fear of a Deliverance moment at Licking Creek Aqueduct in the Dickeys Mountains will not deter me - I'll tell the hillbillys I know their sister.
Some pictures from Flickr.
(photo by gmcdowell, flickr)
3 comments:
See ya' when you get here!
Ah a driving drip to D.C. My parents did that with myself and two brothers. We rode in the back of a four door car and fought the entire way ;).
It's because you said in a previous comment that you sometimes don't bathe for a day - that'll make anyone fight if they're cooped up in a four door together.
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