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Day 2: Winters to Folsom (August 31)

A view of downtown Sacramento from Discovery Park

I liked the American River Bike Trail. It could use some better signage, but pretty nice. (Map here.) It seemed the river was being well used even though it was the middle of the week. There were lots of people out in the river fishing or going about in boats. Also lots of people out on bicycles riding the trail. A guy on a trike was zooming around. I must be somewhat slow because he must have passed me going in both directions about four or five times. There were three or four cyclists who rode along with me to talk about what I am doing. All gave some useful advice. Continue reading Day 2: Winters to Folsom (August 31)

Day 1: Dog Patch to Winters, CA (August 30)

Ferry Terminal on the Embarcadero

I left the Dog Patch of San Francisco at a little after 06:45 in the morning to catch the 07:35 ferry to Vallejo. It was foggy and cool but the people getting off the ferry said it is warm and sunny over on the other side of the bay.

Only four people got on the ferry. Each of us had a bike. The other three were going on an “off-site” which they said is the new corporate word for a retreat. Two of them had serious bikes and laughed that it was for only a 15 mile ride up to Napa. I was planning to get to Winters which was about 60 miles away. A bit more. Continue reading Day 1: Dog Patch to Winters, CA (August 30)

Shining Sea Bike Path

West Falmouth Harbor

After a month of not getting on a bike up in Alaska while on the Juneau Icefield almost the first thing I did when arriving back on Cape Cod was to go for a ride on the bike path in Falmouth.

I only did about 10 miles so not to hurt myself, but I made sure it was long enough to get to see the salt marshes which is my favorite part. There were some osprey in their nest. I would have liked to have seen them fishing but it was still nice to see.

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