The word is out….some of the best accommodations for cyclists and visitors alike to the DC area and the C&O Canal National Historic Park are the C&O Canal Trust Lockhouses. No flowers or candlelit dinners for my wife on Mother’s Day! Cheryl choose for us to go biking in and around DC, and stay at Lockhouse 6 on the C&O Canal. The Lockhouses, like all six of the Lockhouses available for rent are refurbished quarters that were originally built for those individuals and or fami

Trust me on this one... if you are planning a day or multi day bike ride, Cumberland is worth considering as a stop, base or layover. The C&O Canal National Historic Park and Great Allegheny Passage converge in downtown, and access is easy with plentiful services and lots of things to do! Cumberland is a great small town, (yes, I am a bit biased, as I have lived and/or worked here most of my considerable adult life) and yet it is still an undiscovered jewel that is fast bec

This morning, I met a very nice older gentlemen from Florida on the C&O Canal, who was riding from Pittsburgh (via the Great Allegheny Passage to its confluence with the C&O Canal at Cumberland, MD) on his electric bike. For those of you unfamiliar with electric bikes (or E-Bikes as they are commonly called), they are bikes who have an electric motor designed to assist cyclist with pedaling when the need arises. And yes, they theoretically could allow riders to use only the

I gave a presentation recently on biking and bike trails at the Rotary Club of Cumberland’s weekly meeting. Following the meeting I received a very nice email from one of the members saying that my talk inspired her and inquiring as to what she should consider when purchasing her new bike? I am flattered to be anyone’s inspiration (thank you for the kind words Sally) but do not consider myself an expert. I do however have some opinions on what to consider when buying a bike