36.85 miles today, 3741 overall
When waking at camp, we we read news reports of flash flooding and extreme rainfall that we travelled through yesterday. The bugs at camp have been relentless. The weather forecast for today is not much different than the wet day before. We booked a hotel room at our expected destination, a conservative distance away.
We were then met by a beautiful day from beginning to end. While the C&O trail has rough patches on this segment, it is certainly a trail anyone can navigate.
Harper’s Ferry is a unique town that I have now visited twice. Over the 15 years since I first visited, I forgot that the fully loaded bicycles need to travel up and down a spiral staircase and across an old railway bridge spanning the Potomac river. This was fun exercise that enabled us to have good food and beer good food, beer and ice cream.
None of us complained that we didn’t get rained on all day. It was about 90 degrees and humid though, and the comforts of a Holiday Inn are most welcome.
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