Great Allegheny Passage Trail

We did it! My husband Rick & I biked the 130+ miles of the Great Allegheny Passage Trail between Cumberland, MD & McKeesport, PA!
I’m sore now!
We’d been planning this trip for years as we are avid bike trail riders, and it’s been our goal to bike the entire extant length of the trail. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Great Allegheny Passage, it’s the ultimate in rails-​to-​trails conversions. It occupies the roadbeds of several abandoned rail lines including the Western Maryland, the B&O, and the P&LE. It connects with the C&O Towpath in Cumberland, and it’s planned to connect with the present South Side/​Three Rivers Heritage Trail in Pittsburgh. Thus a bike ride all the way from Pittsburgh (Station Square) to Washington, DC will be possible.
So my brother Paul drove us down from Pittsburgh to the Canal Heritage Center, a former railway station in Cumberland. This also doubles as the train station for the Western Maryland Scenic Railway. And yes, because my husband’s a railfan, I’ve ridden their trains. We arrived in Cumberland in the afternoon and from the Canal Heritage Center, we set out for the initial 17 miles to Frostburg. Because we had to carry overnight bags and our food supplies (I’m a type-​1 diabetic) we borrowed some kiddie trailers from a friend. Rick carried the overnight bags and I carried the coolers.