September 30, 2012. Artemas, PA. C & O Canal.

Once upon a time, many years ago, Ken and I walked every mile  of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal., which runs from Georgetown, DC. to Cumberland, Md.   We walked it in six mile stints.  We would park the car and walk for six miles, then return back along the path back to the car.  The following Sunday, we would pick up where we left off.   If Dave and Irene were visiting us, they came along for the hike, and often seemed to walk the difficult parts.  It was a lovely walk.   Of recent years, we have paid  the old path no mind...until today.

Rita and Ian had never even seen the path or the canal so today we drove to Little Orleans to see the Potomac River and the Canal and the Little Orleans Aqueduct.   The drive from our farm is easy and we drove right down Fifteen Mile Creek Road, where we forded the creek twice before driving over to Orleans Road and down to Bill's Place and the river.  The canal is still beautiful.  Once you leave the camp ground and start walking, you never see another soul until you return.

Getting home was a different matter.  We drove home through Green Ridge State Forest.  After a thirty minute drive, we found highway 51, ending up in Cumberland..  The drive from our farm to the River took us fifteen minutes, but getting home took us ninety minutes.  But we enjoyed every minute, especially visiting our old friend, the C & O Canal.