We ate left-over pizza for breakfast as nothing else was open. Stopped in Williamsport to find a bike shop, coffee and food. Bike shop was closed but we found a decent little cafe and loaded up on carbs and caffeine.
The weather forecast wasn’t looking good and we wanted to get to Harper’s Ferry before the rain caught us so we hammered through the morning with just a few short stops. Passed pretty close to my namesake – Sharpsburg – famed for being the site of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day of American Civil War. By lunchtime the rain had caught us so we pulled off the C&O to eat a decent lunch in the little college town of Sheppardstown. For the first time – pulled on my rain jacket and we spent the next few hours getting pretty soaked. When we reached Harpers Ferry we had to do a pretty hilly and very sketchy detour in busy traffic as the bridge over the Potomac was closed for repairs.
Arrived at our funky little hotel pretty soaked and tried to get everything hung up to dry before venturing out for dinner and re-hydration. The detour added a few extra hilly miles – topping out the day at 74.2 miles.
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