My last day on the Towpath started about as poorly as any day on a bike trip I’ve had over the past two years. That’s actually saying quite a lot– I just added up the days that I’ve been on trips over that period of time and it comes out right at half a year: just over 180 on the road. Continue reading →

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I took to heart what I had read somewhere about getting over to and cycling around the Antietam Battlefield Park from the Towpath- that there was a significant hill up from the Canal and that the ones on the loop roadway from the Visitor Center around the battlefield would make that hill seem like no big deal.

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