Turkey Egg huntin'

Solo run in EBMUD property... and maybe some private, not sure... fun loop around San Pablo and Briones reservoir.  Lots of wildlife, not a single person.  

Dyed some roses in the morning

The recent rains made these seasonal creek crossings a bit more interesting.  

Found these eggs on the ground.  Only later did I figure out that these were turkey eggs.  

They look like chicken eggs... 

so I was picturing a bad ass trail runner just taking raw eggs instead of Gu and sucking down raw eggs like it was a power shot.  

Oh and I also scared some and got a pic of this guy flying!

turkey feather? 

Almost stepped on this guy.  

Got back, picked up the kids and we played some pong... 

my dream bike...

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Tour of CA - c510 edition

Fun ride with the C510 crew watching the Tour of California riders zoom by at the Junction Bar.  Now that I'm in Ashland, I sure miss this group.  Getting out at 6:05 every weekday was a great option.  Up here in the winter, it's too damn cold to get out for a ride that early.  Especially solo.  

We had use of the Obsidivan, and a driver (Hightower - who tweaked his shoulder on a crash a few weeks before this ride), so all the cards were set all we had to do was ride.  Le Bumble, Pumpkins, Badger, MJ, Sensei and I loaded up for a fun day on the quiet bay area roads behind Mt. Hamilton. 

the gentle grades of Mt. Hamilton Rd... 

Booya!

The two guys on a break away... 

Oren yelling at the cops... 

the peleton... 

Arpad with the claim

From the Junction, we TT-ed back setting some PRs for sure.  

Hungarian barrels that Arpad imports.

Chillin' at Stony Ridge at the end of the ride.  

Made it back for Kai's choir concert.

Another busy weekend in the bay... feat. Thomas and Camille

Started off a Thurs with a nice ride with the C510 crew... glorious sunrise  

A rare weekend in town!  We had Thomas and Camille for the weekend... and boy did we have a lot planned... I'll just let the pics do the talking. 

Fri - Ran with Nikko to school

meanwhile... Kimbo saw this guy with his pet goat in Berkeley

Fri afternoon, we started off with a ride down to Chinatown Oakland to buy some pastries...

and went to OMCA for Fri Nights!

Pretty amazing sunset...

The dualing RadWagons have been quite the hit this summer...

The next morning was national neighborhood clean up day, so I took the 4 boys down to the creek so we could help out.  They found a bird egg...

Tons of trash...

And got free bandanas. 

Then we went to check out the Dragon Boat Races at Lake Merritt.  They didn't really care about the races, but there was "Dragon Land"... which they did care about. 

 

 

 

Probably the least exciting part of their day...

 

  

Then we cruised down to Jack London for the Eat Real Festival 

Which also featured lots of people, bubbles, games, etc...

Oh, and we made some custom engraved wooden spoons... courtesy of Toyota Mirai, the sponsors. 

 

dab...

The attempt at the group pic...

 

This Paella stand had the longest line... 

Then I took the Dufour kids to play soccer.  My boys watched and cheered them on. 

We rode by our clean up site later.  Check out all that trash!  Good work neighbors!

The next day was Sigman's 50th B-day.  So after cruising out to Walnut Creek with the fam, I veered off and rode up to the saddle with them. 

Them as in Sigman, Moses, Adnan and his wife. 

meanwhile...

The boys had plenty of fun...

The boys wanted to do a ride of their own, so we went to the bay bridge. 

Where they found the trolls...

 

 

 

 

 

Oh the good ole days when the train went to SF.  ABOVE the bay. 

And soon we were at Sigman's 50th party at an Afghan restaurant.  Our kids behaved quite well... the other kid?  Not so much... yikes, what a terror. 

 

Happy B-day Sigman!

Getting a wee bit stoked for ski season... Candide is the GOAT