Day 47!

Gettysburg, PA to Clarksburg, MD - 50.4 miles, 3:53

It's our penultimate day of riding on the Big Ride!

Since we had a short ride, we had a late breakfast (7:00, instead of 6:00), and we left the campground at about 8:00.

It was a short, pleasant ride to the Mason-Dixon line, which is also the Maryland/Pennsylvania border.

You may not be able to see it, but at the bottom of the Maryland sign it says "Mason." Janet, Tracy, Barb, and I are now in our 12th state!
The route through the early part of the ride took us through gentle rolling hills, past small farms. Sam, Tracy, and Janet are enjoying the ride.
There was a nice little coffee shop in Taneytown, MD, and many of the riders stopped there for coffee. I, of course, had a hot chocolate! Here are Douglas, Jim, and Joe,
Catie, Letty, and Rachel,

Liz and Tracy,
and Liz, Rosie, Tracy, Sam, and Barb.
Our "big" city of the day was Frederick, MD, which has many old, historic buildings and some narrow, residential streets.
After we braved the traffic and got out of congestion, we were back in the country, riding along a hilly road that had almost no shoulder. It was beautiful, but a little scary, since the road was well-used by trucks. Some views of the Maryland countryside:
We passed a lot of "Washington slept here" signs.
We're now in Montgomery County, which is where I lived when I lived in Maryland . . . many, many years ago. I never thought I'd come back by bicycle!

We're at the Little Bennett Park campground for our last night of camping on the Big Ride, and it's wooded and really nice. It reminds me a lot of the campground at Easton, our first night on the Big Ride.

Tomorrow we ride into Washington, DC!