My fingers are crossed for your kitty too!

I had a really nice day. After lolling around most of the morning with my coffee surfing the web, I went out through Coyote Hills park and went over the Dumbarton bridge. Then I thought I'd do a little exploring - I knew there was a bike trail on the other side of the Bay that lead out to the Shoreline Ampitheater in Mountain View, and I had a vague idea on where I might be able to find it, so I set off up University Avenue and turned left onto Bay Road. That put me into kind of a seedy section of East Palo Alto (*not* the place I'd be wanting a rear flat!) but then I soon found the start of the trail more-or-less where I thought it might be. Sweet.

Crossing over a wooden bridge it was easy to tell I was now entering the considerably more affluent Palo Alto (behind me was litter-strewn dead brown weeds, in front of me a manicured golf course ) It took me a lot less time than I thought it would to reach the Shoreline Amiptheater and the nice park nearby. I had to slow down considerably by then, since there were a lot of people wandering about, but that's OK, it gave me a chance to take in the scenery - and I think it's really obnoxious when cyclists bomb past pedestrians on multi-use trails, it can really freak people out, particularly old folks. So hopefully I was being a good cycling ambassador

Once out of the park I continued along for a ways and reached Moffet Field and its enormous blimp hangars. According to my cyclomter I had gone about 25 miles by then so I decided it was time to to turn back - I hadn't done anything near a 50 mile ride since before June, and I knew the headwinds were going to come up soon. On my way back I meandered around the park and past the pretty little lake near the Ampitheater, then retraced my route back home. All in all, a very fine day out !

I'll be doing my regularly scheduled Diablo ride tomorrow anyway. From the other side, though.
Hmm, isn't that supposed to be the difficult side? Oy.

We'll manage a get-together one of these days!

Take care (& best of luck with Tilda)

- Jo.