115 Miles Down, A Bit More To Go

Day 2- The beginning

After a good night's sleep at Kristin's house, she walked us down a few blocks to the beach. We're finally at the beginning of our coast to coast bike ride. We cristened our bikes with fine Pacific sand

It was really cold in San Francisco. At least when we were there, it was really, really cold.


The Golden Gate Bridge. According to the sign, there's no turning back anymore.


After 45 miles, we finally made it to Villejo, and ended our first day biking. In town, Relax Inn donated a free room to Coast to Coast (the place definitely lived up to its name). We also had our first visitors; Loreen's boyfriend Steve came with his sister, and then we had dinner and called it a night.

(We later learned that there's a huge Pirate Festival going on in Villejo this weekend. We're not exactly sure what that entails, but if we had known, we would have taken a day off to check it out! Maybe not)



Day 3 - "California reminds me of Disney movies"

Loreen's boyfriend Steve is very savvy with bikes, so he helped us tune things (and by my use of the word "things" you can tell that I'm not very savvy with bikes), and we set our for our next journey from Villejo to Davis. A little before we hit wine country, the views of the hills and farms were spectacular.



Davis is a green, chicken-loving, co-op worshiping, Burger-King-needs-six-months-of-firey-city-coucil-meetings-to-open bike Mecca. As we approached the city, we started noticing signs that we were approaching a "bike-friendly" habitat. As we passed by a farm, we saw this unique pinwheel.

We got to Davis, and and after 76 miles, we were all pretty tired, and couldn't wait to get to our final destination.

Tonight, we're staying with the Wilkes family. Dr. Wilkes is an alumnus of the UCONN School of Medicine, and he and his wife hosted every Coast to Coast team for the past 5 years. They had a barbecue for us (which is nice considering that we've only been eatin PB&J sandwiches and Fig Newtons), let us use their pool, and gave each of us a bed to sleep on. We also got a tour of the UC Davis campus, and and then went downtown to have some frozen yogurt.

Now, we're getting some much needed sleep, because we'll be climbing the Sierra Nevada mountains over the next three days.