Fairfield, CA

The ride today continued 10 miles on the American River Bike Path to Old Town Sacramento. It being Sunday, it was quite crowded with other cyclists. The path is in a greenway such that you would not know you were riding through a city. Old Town is a restoration of historic store fronts with lots of tourist kinds of businesses, and there is a working steam locomotive. After going through West Sacramento on surface streets, the route connected with another bike path that abutted right up against I-80 on a miles long causeway across a marshy area. That led to the city of Davis and my third flat tire of the trip, one of the dreaded goathead thorns finally. Davis is known as a very bike friendly city and so it was back onto another 10 mile bike path. Outside of Davis the route entered an extensive agricultural area with fields of tomatoes, and orchards of various un-identifiable fruits, probably avocados and peaches. We had lunch in the small farming town of Winters, where Sally visited the local farmers' market. The last 20 miles of the 66 mile ride were in a word hot, probably the single hottest 20 miles of the trip. The motel pool in Fairfield was very welcoming. Tomorrow will be another schedule adjustment day (no biking) as we expect to finish the ride on Tuesday with about 40 miles or so left to ride.

We would like to wish Dave and Ruth Happy Anniversary as they celebrate their 40th year of marriage.