The “Beauty Spot of Maryland” didn’t disappoint with its sunrise spectacle over the clouded valley below.
Lisa at the Town B&B served a spectacular breakfast buffet for us on this splendid Sunday morning and lots of valuable info and suggestion for our ride today. Great host!
So we’d been hearing from others on the trail, our first day in the C&O would be the worst part of the trail and it would be much better as we go towards DC and it exactly was! Much smoother and almost no mud. 
I’ve seen several of these aqueducts along the canal and I’m amazed every time at the challenge of building a long distance waterway across other bodies of water. It’s amazing what great shape the structures are 160 years later.
Len, Terry and Annette ride along on another blue sky day. Lots of people out and about on the trail enjoying the weather and views.
Even the local old and overweight dogs were out enjoying a stroll.
A little after 11 we arrive at the Hancock C&O Bike Shop where busy and able handed Paul replaces my spoke and re-trues the wheel. He also sold us a lot of nice merch. In an hour we had things fixed, things bought and food ordered to go for our upcoming picnic lunch.
This AM Lisa had suggested Fort Frederick, about 10 miles past Hancock would be a nice place to picnic so we turned out our take-a-way lunches in the shade at the 280 year old and greatly restored Fort Frederick.
There was a beautiful place to stop at the Potomac Dam 5 built in 1830 to hold back water for the C&O canal. We’ve been following the Potomac today and will continue to the rest of the way to DC.
We rode into our destination for our night in Williamsport around 4 as Annette leads us to our Bayfarm B&B. It was a great, central location with several restaurants walkable.
The 3rd Base Bar across the street was our closest place for Annette and I to get some Yuenglings to celebrate the day with. Well Mike here took right to us, helps us find our beer and orders us up the official drink of the house, the Horse Killer. After we drank it we were invited to sign our name anywhere on the wall or ceiling with hundreds, if not thousands of other names and we did so. The people we meet continue to be fun and nice to us.
Unfortunately it’s Sunday so our only choice for dinner tonight was Tony’s. However the menus, food and services were excellent and we had a great dinner and sauntered back to our B&B to rest our weary bones and full tummies.
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