About 3:30 AM the rain starts. Since it never subsides, we decide to break camp, pack up everything wet, skip coffee and breakfast and get an early start on the 44 mile slog back to Cumberland. Bubba thinks he will have troble dragging the Bob through the mud, and we hit on a plan where he will stay at the campground guesthouse while the three of us head to Cumberland, pick up the cars and come back to Rockwood to pick him up. As we head back up to the Divide, we see an apparition ahead on the trail and it turns out to be Bubba, having changed his mind. He has only one request, and that is to stop in Myersdale, PA for a cup of coffee. We head down Main Street and find the G.I. Dayroom Coffee Shop, where the cook was standing outside. Bubba steps in ahead of us and says, "It was just like and old western where the gunslinger steps into the bar and everone goes silent and looks at him." But they all smile and welcome us in and are just the nicest, friendliest group of folks you'll ever meet. In fact, as Bubba headed in ahead of me, I asked him to get me a cup of coffee, black. Before I know it, the cook is returning with cup of coffe in hand! We order breakfast sandwiches and the highly recommended home fries. Since Meyersdale is known as "Maple Town" and they pride themselves on their maple syrup, the cook brings us each over little "smiley face" pancakes just so we can try the maple syrup. Just a great place with a wonderful small town vibe and just what we needed to propel us back to Cumberland. After reaching the Divide again, we have a 24 mile gradual downhill and make it back to the vehicles around 1:30. We have decided to pack up and head to a motel in Raleigh, where Bubba and I will visit the Civil War museum there and Kevin and Jerry can get an early start to Tallahassee.
John
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