Saturday, July 16, 2011

NO MORE HILLS!!

So, we have made it a total of 2741 miles this far, a little around 300 more miles to go. After we left Columbus, we started the numerous days of hills and more hills. Several detours of about 8-9 miles to cover 2 miles because of freeway. Had several hills for the past few days at 15-20% climb, numerous hills of 8-12%. Now we start on the Allegahany trail and the CO Canal trail all the way to DC. It is relatively flat, old rail trail. Some interesting history in this area, but also lots of traffic and very little shoulder on the roads. In Morristown, Ohio we went through the Jamboree in the Hills, essentially a 4 day redneck woodstock with CW music and over 100,000 people. Lots of wife beater t-shirts and mullets, I guess that's still the style here in the hills. Don't know if we'll have much access from here to DC, but it has been an epic journey. Tomorrow is Kathy and I 29th anniversary, next year she and I go to Alaska for our 30th, by cruise boat!! Thanks, and we'll see you later. John

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