Francesca on October 21st, 2009

And although I hope the dead don’t keep it, I’m going by another road. Guymon, OK is the farthest west I will have gone on this trip. It’s melancholy, but after checking elevations on my route through NM and realizing how quickly the weather changes out here, I’m retreating. I’m now moving east and south [...]

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Francesca on October 9th, 2009

Current location: Fort Scott, Kansas. For anyone keeping up with my twitter feed, it’s clear that my route has deviated majorly from the original plan to head north and west. Watching the weather in Wyoming these days, I’m pretty glad I’m not there.  My current plan is to continue heading southwest into New Mexico and [...]

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Francesca on September 17th, 2009

I wasn’t able to find any recent trip reports of the C&O and GAP online before going, so here’s mine for future cyclists. I biked the trail, fully-loaded, between DC and McKeesport in August 2009.
The total distance between Mile 0 of the C&O in Georgetown, DC and Mile 130 in McKeesport, PA (the trail [...]

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