Friday, May 6: Oakland, MD to Paw Paw, WV on the C&O canal & Potomac Rv

Oakland is a pretty neat town. I could live here too. The highways in MD are great for bicycle riders - wide shoulders and some told me they actually sweep them twice a year. One major climb. Continued to see big double jointed trucks hauling logs. One long, steep (9% grade) down hill coast along the spine of a mountain. At the top there was a warning to truckers - "If brakes fail, ditch immediately." I'm not sure exactly what that meant so I rode slowly down the left side of the road.

At the bottom of the mountain was a Mead-Westreco paper mill - where all the logs were being taken.

80 miles, 7:20 hours.