13. Sept.
The car is now trashed in a way reminiscent of the Foster"s Farm chickens. That plus the pretzels. This is pretzel country and there are many many types, all good so far. Hard ones. Excellent.
Beautiful muddy ride to Paw Paw where a 3100 foot tunnel was built to avoild six miles of canal building. It was planned to take 2 years but after six million bricks, ethic fights among the laborers, and lots of construction problems it took 14 years. By the time the tunnel was completed the canal was made obsolete by the rail road.
Unlighted tunnel, very creepy inside.
The B&B in Hancock was a former doctor's office, old style with the office downstairs. Wonderful home from 1904. Good breakfast; found that even a good waffle lasts but 21 miles.
The path is in many ways as good as the Danube without the long distance travel and with good food places along the way.
In Cumberland, the birthplace town of our esteamed LIbby. The Trudells lived here until Libby was two. Sharon has taken a number of pictures of the town and the old homestead – these pics should be up around the time this post is up.
The pictured bank may be one that Marv remembers, seems to be of an era long past. Same can be said of the art deco period movie theater, ins Sharon's pics.
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