A busy fortnight

On March 31, I headed down to California from Kent, WA.  My goal–to ride in an amazing 65 mile bicycle ride.  What was so amazing about this ride?  Well, the only riders were women!  That’s right, no men at all riding, just women.

I left bright and early, making my way down Interstate 5.  I got through Washington state by noon, crossing over the bridge between Washington and Oregon at exactly 12.00 pm.  It took me another several hours to get through Oregon, and I crossed into California around 5.00 pm.  My first photo of the trip is of Mount Shasta, still snow-covered.

Mount Shasta is a volcano, and so it has a tiny sister, known as Shastina.  That’s Shastina right in front of Mount Shasta.

I stopped for the evening in Redding, CA. The next morning I headed to Sacramento, which is the capitol of the state of California. I was to meet up with a couple of cycling friends.

My friend Bill with his chrome Schwinn Paramount, and me with my Sachs.

My other friend, John, on a borrowed Lemond:

Spotted a California Live Oak with these magnificent oak galls:

We went for a short ride along the American River Trail, and then it was time for me to head down to San Jose, where my mother lives. I used to ramble all along a small creek there, Ross Creek. It was never much of a creek, but the frogs loved it!

I still don’t know what plant this is, but it was too pretty to ignore. This is what the creek actually looks like:

More adventures tomorrow!