It's official

[fiveonomo]

I will be taking a bicycle trip from Georgetown DC to Cumberland MD on the C&O Tow Path. I will be leaving on the 3rd of May 2014 and returning somewhere around the 7th. I really wanted to do the whole thing to Pittsburg PA, continuing onto the GAP Trail completing about 335 miles but with a career, family, and everything else I am so pumped that I get to do the C&O!!

My hammock gear is basically ready along with my hiking/camping gear. The only thing I have left to buy for the hammock is a UQ and a TQ. This coming Friday, two days away, I will be buying the Lynx UQ so all I really have left to buy is the TQ and in a pinch I will use my sleeping bag.

My bike needs to be outfitted with racks and panniers and a few other things I will need. I am really pumped about this, I can't wait! Right now it's just me so I have to find someone to ride with as I promised the wife I would not go alone. Before she signed off on it that was her only stipulation. Funny, I was in the Marine Corps and went to very far away strange lands, I came home and spent 8 years as a city police officer here in Richmond Va and 4 of those years I was assigned to SWAT, I left there and spent two years with a county PD and I left there in 06 and I have been working as a Firefighter since......but I cannot ride my bike alone.......on a trail. Oh well, she is really good to me and I love her dearly, I will find someone to ride.

Anyway, I am pumped and I wanted to share. Thanks for reading.

[STinGa]

Sounds like a good trip. There are several hangers here that bike-pack. You may want to make the $10 donation to the site, it will let you have access to the extra thread topics ... including the new bike-packing area.

I completely understand your wife; she must be related to mine. I have a history of getting hurt during PT involving sports (severely sprained ankle, a broken finger, pulled muscles), but never hurt during training or on missions ... can't figure that one out.

STinGa

[OutdoorDad]

I'm almost willing to come over from TN and ride just fill the last check mark. On the contrary, I don't think my wife has ever said be careful.... maybe she knows me too well to waste her breath.

[fiveonomo]

I have thought about doing that STinGA, not sure why I haven't. I will look into it.
C'mon outdoordad! The more the merrier.