We woke up today on a mountaintop in rural Maryland. Sometime during the night, I actually picked up enough data service to download my e-mail. We have not had data service since we left Meyersdale and no internet service since we left Connellsville.
Dave the B&B owner prepared a wonderful breakfast of scrambled eggs, ham, oatmeal made from an old family recipe and a french toast which looked fabulous. We enjoyed our breakfast and sat around talking as we had an easy ride today and were in no hurry. Finally around 9:30AM we loaded up and Dave shuttled us back down the mountain to the trail. We got on the way around 10:00AM.
We rode along the gravel/mud trail for about 5 miles and move up to the railroad trail which parallels the C&O towpath but it is PAVED!!!! We enjoyed the PAVED roadway for about 15 miles and then got off to find lunch. We found the diner which had been recommended to us and it was very good. Home cooked style food which we really enjoyed.
We returned to the PAVED trail for another 10 miles. It was ironic but Randy hit the only sharp rock on the PAVED trail and blew his back tire. We have ridden a few hundred miles on some of the rockiest rough roads I have ever been on and no problems.
We went back out on the C&O trail when the rail trail ended but we only had around 15 more miles to go and we got to the B&B in Williamsport around 3:15PM. The owner is a very nice lady and took our dirty laundry to clean and gave us a couple of bottles of wine. We showered up and went to the backyard to sit around and drink our wine and discuss the world's problems. Finally around 6:00 we walked up the street to dinner and found a car show complete with a band setting up on the main street.
We had dinner and went out to see the cars and listen to the band. It was pretty awesome for a warm summer night.
We came back to the B&B to finish our wine and while we were sitting around, the owner brought out her three four month old Cocker Spaniel puppies. “They were very cute and we were trying to see how we could fit them in our bags to take them home but we concluded that they wouldn't fit!
Tomorrow we go to Virginia!
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| Hilltop B&B |
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| Anna & Randy |
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| A stone arch at a lock |
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| Lock master house |
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| Dam on the Potomac |
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| Car Show in Willimasport |
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| The band! |
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