700 mile bike ride from DC to Pittsburgh and back
Preface T minus ten days to kick stand up. In five days, I graduate from college into the unknown world of Covid-19. For the first time in a long time, I will be free of the bonds of education. Ever since elementary school, I have been wanting to ride the entirety of the C&O trail. I’ve made a few weekend camping trips along the trail by myself or with friends from Boy Scouts but never before have I had the time to bike the whole trail. As I waste away, quarantining in my parents’ house, my mind is atrophying. I need a challenge. I need a purpose. Something other than half-assing elective classes online and binging TV shows until 3am. The plan, before the virus, was for my family to take a long car trip to Idaho, between graduation and the time my summer job starts at an outdoor camp. With the pandemic that changes everything. My deliverance from boredom will come in the form of this herculean bicycle venture. The plan: to bike the 184.5 mile towpath of the C&O canal fro