Petaluma Ride

Friday, Sept 22nd

Our last ride today began in Petaluma at its creamery.  I had a taste of one of the ice creams.  Very nice.

After yesterday's 55 mile epic ride, this was to be just a 25 mile roller ride but it still stung a bit, mostly because the roads are even worse than ours here in the South Bay, and well, the smell of manure was a bit overwhelming!  Ha ha, we are after all in the country.  Molly told a hilarious story about getting some free manure, goat kind that is, and it apparently is incredibly nasty in its smell.  Goats eat anything. 

Leo and I rode together for awhile.  He kept me motivated as he shared his biking adventures from last year.  I enjoyed hearing about his trips.  Some of our gang left last night; some new ones showed up; and some of Molly and John's new cycling friends came along as well.

This scene was spectacular.  We were descending a great hill but I had to stop to take a photo.  So did another ACTC member who had just returned from Italy and showed up today just to do this ride.  Remarkable!  After the ride, we said goodbye to all, but, for Miss P and I, we still had one more adventure....