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rebeccmeister) wrote2017-06-04 05:04 pm
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Weekend mini-adventure: Vallejo
I couldn't go rowing Saturday morning, so scrottie and I decided we wanted to go on a bike ride instead. For a change of pace, I suggested we look into a partial route towards Petaluma, because we eventually want to bike up there to visit the Lagunitas Brewpub. On the local randonneuring list, someone had just posted about navigational logistics in the North Bay, and mentioned good food and drinks at the Mare Island Taproom in Vallejo. Sounded good to me!
On the outbound leg, Google gave us weird directions through Pinole and Hercules, sending us on a strange detour along some small bike paths. Eventually, we reached the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge:
The last time we rode across this bridge was the Saturday after moving out here, when I wanted to wedge in a 200k permanent to keep working towards an R-12 Award (ride at least 200k a month for 12 months). On that prior ride, we didn't have time to stop and take photos, so it was nice to take a more leisurely pace and observe the Sacramento River Delta.
Here's the view north, towards Vallejo:
That's the mouth of the Napa River, separating Mare Island on the left from the mainland.
The Mare Island Taproom was in the ferry building in Vallejo, so I suppose if we didn't want to ride our bikes there we could have taken the ferry from San Francisco instead.
We opted to bike back.
Here's an interesting-looking business on the south shore of the Sacramento River delta, a restaurant called the Nantucket. It looked busy on a Saturday afternoon, even though the marina right outside looks like it has seen better days.
S is curious about the function of the barge-like boat in the center of the photo, which has a huge ramp on its back end.
scrottie and I decided we wanted to go on a bike ride instead. For a change of pace, I suggested we look into a partial route towards Petaluma, because we eventually want to bike up there to visit the Lagunitas Brewpub. On the local randonneuring list, someone had just posted about navigational logistics in the North Bay, and mentioned good food and drinks at the Mare Island Taproom in Vallejo. Sounded good to me!On the outbound leg, Google gave us weird directions through Pinole and Hercules, sending us on a strange detour along some small bike paths. Eventually, we reached the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge:
The last time we rode across this bridge was the Saturday after moving out here, when I wanted to wedge in a 200k permanent to keep working towards an R-12 Award (ride at least 200k a month for 12 months). On that prior ride, we didn't have time to stop and take photos, so it was nice to take a more leisurely pace and observe the Sacramento River Delta.
Here's the view north, towards Vallejo:
That's the mouth of the Napa River, separating Mare Island on the left from the mainland.
The Mare Island Taproom was in the ferry building in Vallejo, so I suppose if we didn't want to ride our bikes there we could have taken the ferry from San Francisco instead.
We opted to bike back.
Here's an interesting-looking business on the south shore of the Sacramento River delta, a restaurant called the Nantucket. It looked busy on a Saturday afternoon, even though the marina right outside looks like it has seen better days.
S is curious about the function of the barge-like boat in the center of the photo, which has a huge ramp on its back end.
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-the boat was originally one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCM-8
-it was decommissioned and bought by a non-government owner in CA: https://boatdb.net/boat/824-1209611.htm
-the ramp is used to drive things on and off the boat, probably currently equipment and cargo, but originally troops, and the boat was likely used first in Vietnam
Also:
-the big rotting boat has been there since the 1980's and known as The Ghost Ship
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