You can tell that this place in EPA has
been closed for years because their advertised price for a gallon of
unleaded was $1.009. Too bad the pumps are gone. Not long after that we
stopped a Big Ants, a great Cajun food place. I reccomend the greens,
but it's all good! Awesome food.
By this time our group was strung out
over a large area. Probably I was at or near the back. When the rider
ahead of me became a smallish speck my attention drifted from keeping
up to taking pictures of the views that grabbed my attention.
By this time I was getting fairly good
at seeing something, taking out the camera, taking the picture and
putting away the camera without stopping the pedaling work that I
needed to do to catch up with the rest of them.
Ooops! I dropped the camera that time.
I guess I was getting too cocky about thinking it was easy to get the
move right. I took this picture of the bike, just to make sure the
camera still worked.
By this time we had seen the fast group
(Mary, Martha, Jarek, Cosmo, Sue, etc.) for the last time long ago.
Diane and I ended up as a pair near (at?) the back of the pack. She had
the directions so I just made sure I kept up with her. I was glad to
get off the bike for a few minutes when Diane and I got to this regroup.
Once we left the regroup we quickly got
strung out again.
Probably the power for hundreds of
thousands of homes goes through this power yard. I don't think mine is
one of them, because it's on the other side of San Francisco Bay.
I think this is Ohlone High School or
College in Newark. Nice of them to name the school after the indegenous
people.
Then we pedaled down auto mall parkway.
Lots of cars for sale there. Seemed like most of the new car dealers
had Helium balloons for some reason. Seems to be a car selling tradion.
Back when that was the NUMI plant they
made a car that I bought new and drove until I totaled it. Now it's the
Tesla plant. Hopefully as gas goes up getting one of their electric
cars starts making sense to more people. If the early adopters get a
good deal out of their machines the company will be part of Fremont's
landscape for a long time.
Solyndra was in the news for a while as
the latest big new thing. Now it's just a campus of empty buildings. It
took a while to ride past the whole thing. They must have spent a lot
of money on rent and salleries!
By this time it was late and we were
all getting tired. This picture was taken on a bike trail that followed
along by 237. Except for the traffic whistling by not far past the edge
of the picture, it was a very nice place to ride. I'm going to do that
trail again some time!
It was a great day! I got home tired
and happy to have seen many new places with awesome people.