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<\/p>\nI woke in the morning and packed as the guys did. They headed south, and I north. My energy levels now transitioned, I made short work of the few miles to Cumberland.<\/p>\n
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With a solid Internet connection for the first time in days, and no need to conserve power, I worked on my options for home. The train Sunday meant two more nights either camping or in a hotel. While there’s a certain poetic ending to traveling the length of the canal by train, a car rental would get me home two days earlier.<\/p>\n
After some back and forth between Enterprise and Hertz (including some bait-and-switch on the part of Enterprise), I rented a car from Hertz one-way to Reagan Air. The rental place on the other side of town, I cycled at least a few miles of the Great Allegheny (paved at least that far) on my way to Hertz. I drove back to DC, passing in a couple of hours what had taken me days to cycle.<\/p>\n
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While No\u00e9 offered to pick me up at the airport, his place was only 10 or so miles from Reagan. The only remaining excitement (and a sign of how little excitement the last few days have had that it even registers) was navigational. I had configured OSMAnd to prefer unpaved track when routing. While I had needed little navigational help on the C&O, the route tracking helped determine accurate distances on the C&O. Configured that way, OSMAnd routed me into the middle of a community college, the path forward a long flight of stairs. Forward rather than back, I carried the bike up, but changed the settings. The rest of my ride was uneventful, as was the drive back home.<\/p>\n
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Being gone for a week feels both long and short. Oddly sad and disappointing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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