Thanks, Roxy! We'll see what the next tour might be, but I have to admit the GAP sounds like a good possibility! And I got to ride a few feet of it, as the hotel in Cumberland backs right up to it and the towpath! (How convenient is that?! It was great!)



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I left out some other stats I meant to post, so....
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MORE STATS
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Number of bruises resulting from trip: Too many to count
My legs are covered with bruises. Many many bruises, some little, some big, some painful, some not. Bruises on bruises and bruises running into bruises. Most I do not remember getting.

Percentage of spider webs at height of my upper lip: at least 98.9%
Apparently, the average C&O Canal Towpath spider which drapes a web line across the towpath likes a certain height, because 98.9% (or more!) of the spider webs I rode through hit me in the upper lip. It was uncanny. Not the chin, not the lower lip, not across the nose, nor on my bare arms.... nearly every spider web I know I rode through hit me in the space between my upper lip and my nose.

(We will not think about where the spiders who made those webs might have been when I rode through the webs!!!)