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\"\"<\/a>I am not always formally attired – here’s how I look on weekends, at least during the summer. Shirt was soaked but plastic wrapper saved the cheap cigar. Pic taken by one of the best photographers I know – Faith Angove.\u00a0 Photo is from a hike I recently led along the Towpath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am not always formally attired – here’s how I look on weekends, at least during the summer. Shirt was soaked but plastic wrapper saved the cheap cigar. Pic taken by one of the best photographers I know – Faith Angove.\u00a0 Photo is from a hike I recently led along the Towpath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2627,713,2963,2324],"class_list":["post-16328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-c-o-canal-towpath","tag-hiking","tag-photo","tag-portrait"],"yoast_head":"\nCameo on the C & O Canal Towpath - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Impromptu photo of me hiking along C & O Canal, sweating and smiling on a steamy July day\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/08\/cameo-on-the-c-o-canal-towpath\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cameo on the C & O Canal Towpath - 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