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Jim Olson's eye appointment at the V.A. hospital the day after our return from Wisconsin gets complicated when his blood pressure crashes and the crash-cart team arrives.
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so much for a eye appointment - Jom is about to be swept away on a gurney to the E.R.
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Linda with Jim Olson (straight from his release from the V.A. Emergence Room) at the Rumsey monument in Shepherdstown
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Richard Belisle with Jim Olson at the Rumsey monument in Shepherdstown
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Linda with Jim Olson and Josie at the Rumsey monument in Shepherdstown
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on my first ride after Wisconsin I take the bike path towards Martinsburg and am here approaching the Coast Guard campus from Charles Town on the Rt 9 bike path
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on the Rt 9 bike path near the Coast Guard at "Short Road" at furthest point from home on a short 22-mile Thursday ride
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first healthy ride after Wisconsin, a 58.14-mile Friday tour of northeastern Jefferson county and parts of adjacent Berkeley county
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MapMyRide's rendering of my 58.14-mile Friday tour
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Currie Road in the morning
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a beautiful but (unfortunately) dead blacksnake stretched across the Rt 9 bike path near Kearneysville
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one of two Isaac Walton League sites within cycling distance of my house - this one at the far northeast corner of my 58.14 mile loop through portions of Jefferson & Berkeley counties
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Saturday float - put-in at Rt 51 - take-out at Sulphur Springs bridge
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the route of our float - Opequon Creek from Rt 51 at Robert's house up to the Sulphur Springs bridge take-out (about 7 miles I believe)
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Robert put in and tried removing some old fishing tackle that was tangled in the over-hanging sycamore trees while we waited for the others to return from the "take-out"
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starting the float Richard puffs a cigar
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starting a long float with smoking a cigar would make me feel sick
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it had been a while since Zimmerman was on a float and he cautiously hung out right under me for a while - eventually he did go up into the prow and stand of the gunwales
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wearing one of my Daddy's old sun-hats
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beaching the fleet
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our first break - some food
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our first break
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so many great root patterns descend thirstily into the river - many more striking than this but paddling and getting out the camera-phone don't always work well together.
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Robert relaxes on his creek
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As Richard's "Mad River" has a V-bottom one rock in the wrong place can send it off course in a riffle - here Robert comes to the rescue as Neil looks one from his kayak (Neil took a spill at the very beginning of our float)
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the fleet - canoes are Richard's "Mad River" and my Shenandoah - the others (Robert, Bill & Neil) were in kayaks
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Admiral Robert Braun surveys the fleet as we take shore leave during a float of Opequon Creek
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Zimmerman the fluffy First Mate after a brief walk through the shallows
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My 57.86-mile Sunday ride around the southwestern half of Jefferson County (and parts of Clarke County VA)
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