Wednesday, 2 June 2010

Memorial Day Weekend Part 2

After we dropped Robert back at his place for an afternoon nap, Jim and I drove over to his place in Berkeley and went for a bike ride.

On the way I snapped a photo of the buffers that they put at the end of concrete structures on the freeways. You have probably seen similar things on ours, large blocks of rubber and interesting cables. The Americans used oversize rubbish bins filled with water.



Jim lives here. Yes, that is his truck out the front and he has 24 solar panels on his roof.

We jumped on the bike and rode to the end of his court and down the secret pathway, ending up at this lookout. I don't have any photos as I didn't want to take my camera on a mountain bike track.

We rode up the valley to this meadow and then went along various paths and tracks to this horse jumping arena in the middle of the bush. If you are getting the impression that I had no idea where I was, then you would be right. I just followed Jim and hoped that he wouldn't get too far ahead.

It was quite a ride and if you look at the large map you can see the lookout on the left, the meadow in the bottom right corner and the horse arena right of the middle top. We then rode from the horse arena back to the meadow by another track and then went down Joaquin Miller Rd back to Jim's house.

Again, apologies for not having any photos, I would have been too worried about my camera to enjoy the ride.

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