Date: 2006-10-12
From: Chestnut Hill rd, Va 32

To: Keep Tryst Road
Miles today: 4.9

Chestnut Hill rd, West Va 32 to Keep Tryst Road, Maryland  N 4.9 MilesToday is Thursday October twelfth. And we woke up this morning at the Hilltop House Hotel in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. And we woke up to a beautiful morning. Very nice, Very few clouds. Sun came up over the mountains, or really through the gorge. And we just enjoyed a few minutes there, having a muffin and coffee, and walking around looking at the scenery. And then we got on to positioning Daves Sprinter over in Maryland on Keep Tryst Road. We left our car at 8:55 on Chestnut Hill Road and five minutes later, at nine o'clock we were on the AT again going down towards Harpers Ferry. We came out at the Hwy 340 bridge and walked across the bridge over the Shenandoah River, then they take you back up in the woods a little bit. And you walk along the historic downtown Harpers Ferry. You come to Jefferson rock, and we stopped and we read about that. You finally come to this historic old church, and you walk through that, and you come to the Harper house. And we went through that, and then you come on down to the main street, and he walked around, you read things. And then finally went over to the point, where the confluence of the two rivers. And finally we took the foot bridge across the Potomac. By this time the batteries had gone out in the camera, so no pictures after this. You cross over the bridge over the river and you come along to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. And we walk along the old towpath, totally flat. Fantastic looking level surface, and my feet are killing me. But we finally made it four point nine miles and we came to Daves van, about 11:45. The van was parked on Keep Tryst road just below Hwy340. Four point nine miles and then we went into Harpers Ferry and had lunch at King's pizza again. We went to the A.T.C. center and ended up having our picture taking, for section hikers. We bought Maps and we looked at them at the pizzeria. We drove out of town again, up on a high point, to give Judy a call, because she had left a message. We looked at the battlefield up there. Drove back around, decided to go to the outfitters. We parked down at the train station and went to the outfitters. And then finally we left, took Dave back to his Sprinter and hes off to find a campsite. And we went over into Maryland went up 67 and then turned on to some back roads, Trico road to come out at a little town of Antietam. We came up along the canal again along the river and it looks really nice. And we drive along that, go over little bridge, Like Terry says, "looks just like the Antietam Bridge". We come up to a highway where there's a bridge going over the river. I look over there and say "look at those Bavarian looking homes over there". Finally Terry Hears me and he looks over there, and he goes, "oh it's the Bavarian Inn", so we are right there again, In Shepherdstown. We turned; we went to Antietam National Battlefield Park. And went in and watched the movie again, read stuff, and we drove around the park. Finally we said we got to get to Greenbrier State Park, so we headed off and we came to the park at six o¢clock. David found us a campsite, but his friends Tim and Dick were going out to eat in Hagerstown, Maryland to the Texas Roadhouse. So we got ready, took showers and headed up there and had nice meal with them. Sat and talked for quite a while and then Terry and I went over to the grocery store. Hardly bought anything because we didn't like their procedure of needing a customer card. So then we came back and we stopped at Sheets and bought some things. And then we came back to the car to camp. So we will have to see how the feet recover if we want to hike past tomorrow. The wind started out of the north and now it's a lot cooler. Tonight, get down in the thirty's I think.