Finally I found the trail on which we don't need to worry about speedy cars too much for our bicycling; we drove up to Napa yesterday. When we left our home, the temperature was going up higher and higher. But the trail riding was quite comfortable with pretty strong wind blowing.
We started biking from Park and Ride at Redwood Ave, the vine trail is just over there.
We started riding here towards Yountville.
The Napa Valley Vine Trail from here to Yountville has interesting parts.
Nice straight part.
Curvy and bumpy part.
Quite a narrow bridge for me, but it was OK yesterday because no opposite direction cyclist came.)
Double bridge, we love them.
Beautiful single bridge.
But the trail was cut by local roads here and there, so you have to watch out. Luckily an experienced looking cyclist came after us, and we could just follow him at the first crossing road.
Gradually we got used to it.
There is a long crossing.
There is a nice bench and an outhouse. "Honey! I need to stop here!"
This is the Yountville fire station. Our goal will come soon.
Yes, we reached it. There is a parking lot.
And we U-turned to go back. (Next time we will figure out how to go farther to get some yummy food. )
Two cyclists passed us, so I enjoyed following for a while. They were fast.
We haven't ridden more than 10 miles for a long time, so we were pleased.
Next day today we noticed our fatigue in the morning. We will take it easy tomorrow. And will have another fun ride soon.
Next morning we drove up to Lover's Point parking lot. It was foggy and we couldn't see any color on the ocean.
This is free parking with 2 hour limit, so we couldn't waste time. It was chilly and drizzly until we came out to Cannery Row.
After we reached the same parking on Del Monte Ave as yesterday, I put on our bike camera to take the east side of the trail. That was not crossing any streets all the way to the end of the trail parking lot.
After I watched the video from bike camera, I saw 3 places we had to cross the street, but the signs to watch our bicycle crossing are standing on the street. That is very nice!
And the northeast end of the trail is not parking, it is just a nice u-turn section for the bicycle.
The trail is running parallel to a car road, but with nice divider!
U-turn here.
We saw a couple of geese.
When we came back almost there, he told me that we still have a little time, so we got off the bicycles and took some pictures to enjoy.
We hurried to return to Lover's Point!
We reached back to the parking within 2 hours. The sun light was shining on the blue ocean.
We rode 9.5 miles.
We drove to Fisherman's Wharf to park our car, and ate lunch at Sand Bar & Grill under the pier.
Sand Dab
Oyster
We ate enough fried seafood for the whole year.
May 1st extreme Heat pushed me into taking a trip to bike on one of the trails I've been thinking to try out for years. So next day I was stuck in our house to choose and make hotel reservations and found interesting seafood restaurants to dine on our favorites.
We avoided commute traffic by leaving late in the morning, after 3 hours driving we arrived at the parking lot in the Eucalyptus grove a little after Noon.
And we started bicycling among the joggers, cyclists, walkers, and strollers. We were enjoying the thrill to across the main roads here and there, but following the yellow line all the way to Lovers Point was so easy, relaxing and fun that we arrived sooner than we expected.
And u-turned back to the Cannery Row area, and had lunch.
We got off the trail and walked on Hoffman ave to Foam st, and ate at Sea Harvest Fish Market and Restaurant.
Calamari chips and french fries.
Crab sandwich and coleslaw.
I ate one sandwich and salad.
Then I forgot to start the cyclometer, so the map was stopped there, but we returned to the parking lot. 4.9+2.0=6.9 miles riding.
We came to visit Monterey a long time ago, but we never biked together through Fisherman's Wharf, Cannery Row, and Lovers Point before. So this was a superb experience for us.
The most delicious meal we had this trip was the dinner on that night.
That was spicy "Cajun style Sand Dabs on a bed of Ravioli" which had crab meat inside at Fishwife Seafood Cafe and pasta at 789 Trinity Ave, Seaside. We felt in heaven.
It was very worthwhile to walk 2 miles round trip from our hotel.
Finally we loaded our bikes in a car and drove up to Petaluma. We have been so tired lately, and our weights are heavy. So I decided to have just a cup of green tea for breakfast and finished an hour and half music session with my friends in the morning.
So first we went to a cafe, "Two Niner Diner," near the Petaluma Municipal Airport, because we wanted to try their fish and chips for our lunch.
The ambiance was cool, we like it.
Because I didn't want to bother the group having lunch in the middle of the cafe, so I took this photo only, but there are a whole bunch of interesting displays hanging.
And we were so happy to have this nice and crispy Fish and Chips here.
This is the best! Even the french fries were delicious, we were amazed.
We parked our car at Wiseman Airport park in Petaluma, and took out our bicycles. Then we started riding.
The weather was perfect, we enjoyed riding so much that I forgot to take any picture. The blue sky had a beautiful pattern of clouds spreading out, and birds flying and the airplanes flying.
I was worried about crossing E Washington St, but while we were walking on the cross walk, drivers were kindly waiting and waved back friendly to us.
We rode for over an hour which was pretty good, I regret not to have pushed ourselves to ride a little more to 10 miles. We only did 8.7 miles.
But we both really got tired when we came back home. I took a short nap, Mr.Whp is still sleeping. My knees' pain got eased, but my small back, shoulders and arms are still sore.
We should go to bed early today. 😟😟
