lol, Zen!

Jackson, welcome to Team Estrogen!! This is a trip report; I'd already completed my journey when I started this thread. I did, indeed, get in a lot of practice before embarking on my journey; see here, for example. (Oh, the things I learned! Oh, the things I still have to learn!)

And I'm still thinking of doing the GAP this year, have signed up for a metric century with a couple of friends, and plan to do the 24 Hours of Booty ride again this year.

Zen, I'd kind of toyed with the idea of doing the GAP AND C&O together, but the pics you've shared of the flooding ... well, maybe I'll stick to just the GAP this year. Poor towpath! I hope it's okay.