Rails to Trails

[tulip]

Love writing with fountain pens but it's hard to find ink.
Plus, they're beautiful and nice to hold.

Zen, there's a great fountain pen store with all sorts of ink (and pens) in Kensington. Well worth the trip, and it's bikeable from Rock Creek Park for all you other DC fountain pen cycling ladies.

[shootingstar]

From southwestern Canada, there are rail trails also which are not mentioned on Rail Trail Conservancy website, since it's American:

Go north of the border and go into winery country, etc.


http://www.spiritof2010trail.ca/trailMaps.aspx# Southern & central British Columbia is accessible to someone from SD. It is the Okanagan Valley wine region in western Canada. The region is also ecologically, Canada's desert (if you don't count that Canadian Arctic which is also a desert but covered with snow/ice often). Kettle Valley Trail system is one starting point to look into.

http://www.great-trails.com/myracanyon.shtml

http://www.canadatrails.ca/tct/tctbc.html Scroll down on pg. to find all sorts of links. Some of us have ridden certain portions.