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Article: Journey along C&O Canal: Man and his best friend find the path to solitary pleasures along their 184-mile route.(Metropolitan Times)(Life Times)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
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- October 20, 1998
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Just north of Potomac at the C&O Canal towpath at Swain's Lock, Ronald E. McCowen tenderly removes a red cloth bootee from the paw of his 4 1/2-year-old Siberian husky, Taggy.
The husky, lying on her side in a small patch of clover, has developed a blister on one of her pads.
Mr. McCowen, 59, is a full-time world traveler. He has hiked the 2,144-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. He retired after 14 years with the Commerce Department's foreign commercial service, for which he went to the Far East, South America, the Middle East and the Eastern European bloc.
Nothing, however, could have prepared the soft-spoken Mr. McCowen for ...