We took our time getting up, sipping on hot coffee and eating a wonderful breakfast.
Around 9 or 10 am, we finally got around to packing our bikes and hitting the road. Remembering my mistake of the day before, I filled all 3 water bottles to the brim.
When we made it back to the C&O Canal trail, we stopped and ventured into the visitor center.
I think about how far we have come in transportation of goods and people and correspondingly how small that has made the world. 4 MPH would drive us crazy today. We've come too far to go that slow. In my humble opinion, that's a sad commentary as to where we are today. Would slowing down be that bad a thing? I commute to work by bike and one of the main things I appreciate about it is that it causes me to slow down and look outward to observe the sights, sounds and smells around me and maybe even more importantly to look inward and examine what I think, feel and believe.
"4 MPH - There was a time when that was fast enough." Sobering ain't it? Do something about it! Ride a bike!!
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