Originally Posted by cyccommute

Perhaps we are talking two different problems. I'm not talking about restaurants and prepared food. I taking about obtaining groceries. Frankly, I seldom eat meals during the hours that I ride. I suffer from too much discomfort when eating high fat meals while I'm actively riding. And, at the end of the day, I'm in camp preparing my food. I usually carry 3 days worth of food wherever I go on tour because I can't depend on finding food just anywhere.

As I said above, the GAP would be easier to find grocery stores because it has more towns along it. The C&O is about as close as I've come to Colorado and Western "wilderness" riding in the eastern US as I've found. It just doesn't have the "civilization" along it that the GAP does.