Monday: BarbaraL planned a ride which started in Inverness on the west shore of Tomales Bay. We parked in a small lot next to Saltwater Oyster Depot.

Dani, Kathy, BarbaraL and son Skye getting ready to roll:

This ride was planned to be about 34 miles round trip, to the Pt Reyes Lighthouse and back. However it also included 3000 feet of climbing. On an ebike, no problem, whew. On a regular bike, maybe a person has to walk.

So, Skye knew he wouldn’t be able to make it. BarbaraL stayed with him and returned to their vehicle while Dani, Kathy and I pressed on. The vistas were stunning.

We were close, but the climbing was steep and Kathy knew she wouldn’t make it. Dani rode back to get their truck to pick her up, just in case. I stayed with Kathy. She made it back to Inverness just fine, but she was exhausted.

Despite various setbacks, I really enjoyed the ride. 29 miles total. I love my ebike.

Saturday evening, Elaine and I went to a Second Saturday event at

A fundraiser for Norcal Resist. Special guest: DJ Sanz. Salsa lesson:

Live music from Son Cafe:

Ade had knee surgery in June and can’t drive, so each of us brought something to have for lunch at her house. Ade, Kathy, Linda, me:

This afternoon I went to the play with Sarah. Advice was a pretty funny comedy.

I went to lunch on Thursday with my neighbor Kathie.

We got an earlier start to avoid traffic on the road, especially on the climb to Emerald Bay early in the ride. 8 am:

There was a nice trail right to the beginning of the climb. Let me qualify “nice”. There was no traffic to worry about and the surroundings were beautiful but the actual trail was so bumpy.

Elaine met us at one of the wide pull-outs.

Emerald Bay:

The Fish and Game Department was at the Meeks Bay Campground ready to release containers of small trout into the lake. The blow-up fish attracted an audience:

Just a mile away, at Meeks Bay Resort, Brenda went for a cold plunge in the lake, Lori got her feet wet, the rest of us didn’t even want sand in our shoes.

The rest of the ride would be trail.

Brenda calls this photo stop The Rock of Gibraltar:

Back to Tahoe City. We did it. 36 miles today. 78 miles around the lake in two days.

We began at 10 am giving us plenty of time to ride at a moderate pace clockwise around the lake. BarbaraL, Maria, Lori, me, Brenda:

I did this ride a very long time, 25+ years ago. There are more dedicated bike trails – the more the better – there is a lot of summer traffic.

There were signs going south on Hwy 28 for construction delays of 30 minutes or more. This totally worked to our advantage. We rode up the side of the mile-long line of stopped and waiting cars and got to the front just as the flagger waved everyone to go. Shortly, we were able to ride in the coned-off newly paved construction area – there were only two or three very small construction areas where we had to briefly merge with slow-moving traffic. Once all the cars had passed us, there was NO traffic at all for the next 45 minutes or so – sweet. After turning right onto Hwy 50 south, it was all downhill, until I felt a little wobble. Darnit! A flat tire. Trail angels to the rescue: Lori and Brenda changed the flat on the rear tire in about 15 minutes. They found a screw fully embedded and pulled it out. The hole seemed to heal but they put a piece of cardboard between the new tube and the tire, just to make sure. They both took Jibe’s Advanced Maintenance class and are quite good.

Just south of Zephyr Cove, we found this gem of a trail which took us all the way to Stateline.

There were now 8 of us in 3 different hotels near Stateline. We had varying needs for food so some went for pizza and a few of us went to Ristorante Izabella. 42 wonderful miles today and kudos to BarbaraL and Maria who did not have the assist of an ebike.