Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

Monocacy Aqueduct

I mentioned back in April that the restoration project on the Monocacy Aqueduct on the C&O Canal was nearly complete. We were up there Saturday, and the project is done. It looks really good:

If you're curious, here are Gazette articles about the start of the work in 2002 and the rededication in May, and some Civil War history from the Smithsonian.

I have only one little tiny problem with all the work they did. Aqueduct itself: improved. Access road to the park: improved. But where the portajohn in the Aqueduct parking lot used to be one of the best portajohns around (this is what I gained from cycling: encyclopedic knowledge on location and conditions of facilities along the back roads of the county), the new permanent outhouse is foul.