On August 28th, 2016, a group of four middle-aged alumni of Kendriya Vidyalaya High School, IIT, Madras, from the batch of 1975, set out on a bike ride, an epic adventure if you will, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Gaithersburg, Maryland. The ride was successfully completed on September 2nd, 2016, over a period of six days, at Whites Ferry in Maryland on the C&O Canal towpath. About 300 miles were covered during this trip from Pennsylvania to Maryland. The first half of the journey was on the Great Allegheny Passage (GAP), after which we transferred to the C&O Canal towpath.

The GAP is a rail trail that follows abandoned tracks all the way from Pittsburgh to Cumberland. The section from Pittsburgh to Connellsville used to be owned by the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. From Connellsville onward the trail follows tracks of the Western Maryland Railroad.