It is HOT and MUGGY. It is hard to bike and hard to sleep due to the heat. Walked down to the Potomac and rolled walnuts down the road. This is the kids favorite activity. There are walnut trees everywhere. Made a campfire and sweated out the night in the Lockhouse. Definitely hit the temperature variance…last night don’t think that it dropped below 75. We are getting ready to wrap this trip up. It has been great but we are missing running water.
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Note the grooves in the metal along the towpath
from the towlines on the mules. |
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| Towpath |
We did a short ride today—just to White’s Ferry were we watched the ferry take vehicles across to Leesburg and had some ice cream.
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| Our 2nd night in a Lockhouse |
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| "Long-legged Daddies" as Claire calls them |
Today just a short ride to Great Falls where we saw some of the biggest reasons for the C&O Canal—the falls. The falls were cloaked in fall beauty on an unusually hot day. The lemonade tasted great as we were so thirsty. We id’d some Paw Paw trees and found some fruit but it was past its prime. We saw a Blue Heron, stalk, catch and swallow a fish—Incredible.
Staying at the Lockhouse #28 was great—really understand so much more what it was like for the families that ran the locks and those that lived in the canal boats. We stayed in a house with out electricity and with out water. There were historical essays of people who had lived the experience as children.
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