This morning Dan has breakfast ready when I get up. Homemade bread, an omelet with potatoes, and a slice of ham. And, orange juice and coffee to start the day. I am already packed. We have a nice visit and Dan gives me advice for good places to camp. Dan, not only a great host, is a volunteer for the C&O Trail with many years of service and knows the trail inside and out.
As soon as I get back on the trail I am at the Paw Paw Tunnel. I stop to put on my headlamp to see in this long unlit tunnel. A group of about eight touring cyclists come along. They are a family of three generations that started in Pittsburgh and finishing in Washington D.C.
We ride at about the same pace and join together multiple times. I give them my contact information and blog and YouTube link for my movies of the previous tours.
I get ahead while they stop for lunch, I continue to Hancock to buy food for dinner.
I stop at Licking Creek Campsite. I set up camp and cook dinner now I am relaxing to the sounds of birds.
