First Aid Kit comes in handy!

We left Ottawa on a bike path along the I&M Canal which was a nice break from the cars and roads. The only thing bad about bike paths is that the surface is not always the best for skinny-tired bicycles. Going down a small hill we noticed some washed out sections of trail. Dave managed to navigate quite nicely. I however avoided the washed out section and rode directly into some deeper gravel. My front tire went one way, my back tire went the other and the bike went down! Dave dropped his bike and picked mine up off of me. Nothing more than minor scrapes and scratches and the wind knocked out of me, but I've got a good case of road rash on my right leg. We've used a few more paths accross the state, but find the back roads are actually much nicer to ride on most of the time.