First Tour (Sort of)

It may not be much of a tour for some of you, but DH and I just took a weekend trip up the W&OD bike trail on the tandem. On Friday afternoon, we did 39 miles up to Leesburg, VA with a little head wind and threat of rain all afternoon. Except for a brief shower when we were already taking a little break, we managed to stay dry. On Saturday we did a little loop up to White's Ferry and a mile or two on the C&O. Then back today. Two nights at the Norris House B&B in Leesburg and some nice dinners out helped out. Some lessons learned, but that's for another time.

Pretty soon you'll do another little bike trip...Fall would be a great time with all that leaf colour.

Glad you had a great time.

Congrats! Sounds like it was a successful first tour? I don't think you can say "sort of." If you rode your bike somewhere, stayed the night, and rode back- it's a tour indeed!!! I can't wait to hear more about it!

Hey that sounds great! Now you have put ideas into my head; I think I might do the same this fall.

Congrats! You both look like you are having fun and having fun having fun together.

I don't much care for the WOD but the Norris House looks pretty nice.

Have you ridden the canal much?

The trip was fun, albeit tiring. The last part coming home was a bit of a grind for me too. We tried the C&O a couple of weeks ago with a trip up to Great Falls and learned some valuable lessons. As a person who deals with auto-immune stuff and pain type stuff, the vibrations from the packed gravel ended up not being a good option. So anyway, we had originally planned to go to Leesburg up the C&O and back on the W&OD, but after the trip to Great Falls we altered the plan. We did visit the C&O briefly on the weekend, crossing at White's ferry and we found some beautiful spider webs glinting through the dappled sunshine on the canal - I'd never seen such fascinating things. Total bike time was almost 3 hours going up and 2:45 ish coming back. We move along pretty well on the flats, but can't do hills for, well, a hill of beans. And there are a ton of grade crossings on the W&OD which slow you down too. But the avg coming home was 14 mph - like riding a freight train! Slow to stop and slow to start, but give us some room and we can zoom along.