Well, I think we definitely like it here on the east coast, as we've managed to plan an amazing day trip almost every weekend so far. A few weekends ago, we drove out to Paw Paw, WV to bike a portion of the C&O canal. The bike path along the canal runs between Georgetown and Cumberland, MD...which was a little ambitious to do all at once, so we biked about 10 miles out and back from Paw Paw. It may seem like an arbitrary starting point, but it happens to be just a few miles from the 'ole Paw Paw tunnel which we were very curious to see. The tunnel was a little over 1/2 mile long and was quite damp and dark to walk our bikes through - but a very cool feature to have on a bike path!
Looking back as we walked our bikes through the tunnel:
Our turn-around spot right under an abandoned train line:
Afterward, we hadn't had enough of Paw Paw so we finished the day at the Paw Paw disc golf course. Mike played this course many many years ago on a road trip with Jeremy and has definitely had talked it up, so I was very curious. Recently the owners added another 18 holes, so we decided to play that course since it would be new for both of us. The fun part was that a lot of the holes had us hiking through the woods...this of course made it quite difficult. We ended up bypassing a few holes after learning that part of the course goes right through a private shooting range in the woods -- and we arrived right in time for target practice! All in all, a great course though, and we even lucked out with some amazing views of the fall colors:
Squint, and you can see the target basket in the distance:
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