It was a great day for a ride. The morning was certainly colder than the rest of the day! I do have pictures but I am going to post those seperate as my route takes me very far! Very very far!

My day started at 5:45am, thats just the getting up part. I left the house before 6:30am though as I had to meet up with Cara, a fellow rider, at 7:15am. She proceededs to inform me by the way that she had just woken up ten mintues before. Needless to say I wasn't impressed! :) Simple route for this is a straight shot up 880!

Next up a trip to Hayward to pick up yet another rider, Luis. From there the three of us journeyed over to Plesant Hill. I couldn't tell you the exact route for this one but it wasn't plesant due to the cold weather. In Plesant Hill we met up at a Peetes Coffee. There we met several other riders, Steve (the leader), Kendal, Dorthy, and Russ. So that is a total of 8 riders to start off with. 

Had coffee and then we are off on the first true leg of our journey! The gas station!! Haha! Had ya going huh!? Steve, our FANTASTIC lead provided us with break downs of every road along with a printed map! I will try and scan that in but I am not sure when so please, please, please don't hold your breath!

After the morning dosage for our trusty machines we really headed off! 

Warning there are a lot of roads so this list is VERY LONG!  The distance covers about 50 miles.  So to make life easier for my weary brain and body I am going to list the main ones.

Starting out on Crescent Dr we made our way to Hookston Rd.

To Treat Rd to Cowell Road, to Ygnacio to Concord blvd. Took that until it changed to Oakhurst to Marsh Creek to Deer Valley.

From there we slabbed it on Highway 4 for a little bit. Crossed this HUGE bridge. Its not that it was long as it was tall! Folks I promise you I can do the grades now having done this bridge! It was great fun. From there though we headed to Rio Vista.

At Rio Vista we found some Pashnitters (www.pashnit.com) who were just waiting around, for us! :) Lots more people to ride with! Even one gentleman with his son! Now I don't know any of their names, SORRY! I normally am pretty good with that but the only one I remember is Syndney because she is riding a beautiful blue Alren Ness inspired Victory! It was nice seeing that one come up behind me!

The roads we just took were all fantastic! They weren't to technical and though the front of the group was a ways up from me and Russ, we took up the rear gaurd, they were very patient. The roads on this bit were a bit bumpy but nothing that my Tyke couldn't handle! The sun started coming out too which really helped out my poor fingertips!

Moving on! As that is only the first part, we will call it Breakfast! On to Lunch! Lunch will be in the outskirts of Sacramento, BFE really but you can see the Sac Water tower from our lunch spot!

So we departed Rio Vista and headed back the way we came, just a little bit, to play on those Levee roads. Those are some fantastic little spots you Sac folks have out there! Some were a bit gravel filled but what does one expect on the water? I had a blast! Anyway!

So we went to Brannan Isal Rd to Twitchell Island then back to Brannan (kinda did this loopy thing). Headed from there to Terminous road and then out to the Ryer Island Ferry! Amazingly enough this was my first time on a Ferry and certainly my first time with Tyke! It was sooo weird to be sitting on Tyke and moving but she's not on!! After the Ferry we headed to Walnut Grove, then to Dixon, we hit Clarksburg, then Freeport Bridge. From there we went to Lunch at a close by strip mall. Approximate miles for this leg 52 miles.

After lunch we headed out. We ended back at the Rio Vista Chevron Station were the ride technically started. Now i don't know the route for this one because I didn't get a sheet from Steve, not sure if he had one for this route. But for any you out that way we did take another Ferry that moved via a chain and took the Ryer Island Ferry back again. So that might give you an indication of what ways we went but I wasn't paying attention to street signs.

That ride was one of the best ones I have been on! A lot of great roads, good company, and certainly a sore seat!

Some of us, that needed to get back to the bay area, slabbed it all the way! That was the toughest part ever but the journey before made it well worth it! We hopped on 4, went back over that huge bridge, hit 680. People broke off as their turn outs came. Some of us that needed to go further took 580 to 238 to 880. Then some of us, me, continued on home taking 280 the rest of the way. I did stop for dinner with a friend though so I didn't get home until 7:10 pm when I drew a bath and just sat and did nothing!!

:)

Start of Odometer - 1,500 (see previous girl ride)

End Odo - 1,845 

Total ride for me - 345 miles. My longest ever!