Day 3 Meyersdale to Confluence 31 mile, 98 cum

The kitchen in our B&B

Turner and I slept in a little bit this morning, the trains seemed to be ultra busy last night. Did I mention that they are only about 100 yards behind our B&B. We can see them from our window and they seem to blow the horn when they are closest to us!!

We got up packed our things, had breakfast, got the bikes ready and were on the road by 9:30AM. We never did have any additional guests so we had the whole place to ourselves for both days.

We started down the trail to Confluence. We both remarked about how much easier it was to go down than it was to go up. Amazing how we discovered that fact!!

We had a single biker come up on us riding a tandem bike. He said, "did't I see you guys riding east yesterday?". I told him what we did yesterday and he thought that was pretty cool. He asked Turner how he like his first bike ride and Turner said it was awesome! Turner talked to everyone about how he really liked riding cross country.

A few miles later, a group of folks flagged us down and asked if we had any tools as one of the girls had a very loose handlebar. I was able to tighten it up with my Tri-tool wrench. I told her she should get one as it will fit almost every thing on the bike. That was the second person we came across who is riding a long distance without tools. The first one was a man who had a flat as we rode into Meyersdale the first day and didn't have anything to fix a flat. I didn't help him as he had less than a mile to walk and I thought he needed to learn his lesson!

We came back to the farm where Turner talked to the Peacock on the first day so he gave out his best Peacock call and sure enough, the Peacock answered him. We didn't see it as we were moving fast today, down hill don't you know?

We came again to the tunnel being opened for bikers but not yet so we did the mile detour and continued on. Even though we were going down hill, we both started to get tired.

Another half hour or so and we made it back to the parking lot. Our three day ride was over but not the memories. Turner was an excellant companion. He gave me quite an education on a variety of topics.  Turner is a real biker, he didn't complain and he kept on going even when it was hard. He enjoys long distance bike riding and I hope we can do this again in the near future.

Day 2 Meyersdale to Frostburg and back 36 miles, 67 cum

The day started cloudy and cool. We wore our jackets for the first few miles. We started about 8:30 but didn't get far before we realized that we had forgot our lights so back we went to put them on. While we were doing that, two couples came by and asked us how we like Gram Gram's place. We told them it was nice although the trains by quite often during the night blowing their horns.
We started off again and started to cross the many bridges that are on this stretch of the trail some are very long. We met up again with the two couples that we talked to back at the house just before reaching the contiental divide. They were very nice and told us that they were going from Pittsburgh to Cumberland.
We reached the Continetal Divide and took our pictures Turner thought it was very interesting because if you poured water on one side, it would go to the Gulf of Mexico and ifyou poured it on the other side it would go to the Chesapeake Bay.
Now we were going down hill for the first time in 40 miles, Yahoo!!!
We reached the Big Savage Mountain Tunnel and Turner turned on his green wheel lights. They were very cool!!!

We continued on and reached the Mason Dixon Line. Turner was able to stand with one foot in Pennsylvania and one foot in Maryland.
This was a new park that was built in 2013. The last time I was there they only had a wooden painted sign. Don't forget you have to ride a bike to see it!!

We continued on to Frostburg going through the Borgan tunnel, again turning on Turner's wheel lights. They were more impressive because this tunnel is not lit at all.
Frostburg was our next stop. We had lunch in Frostburg and found out that the train does not run on Wed. It is only active on the weekends.
Now it was back up hill to the Continental Divide, a little steeper going back but doable. We made it back to our house by 3:45. Tired but with a good ride under our belts