Raven's Roads
Living an interesting life: the travels and musings
of motorcycling author Linda R. Moore

Oct 11, 2003

11 October 2003

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Miles Today: 7.7
Miles This Month: 40.9
Miles This Year: 572.9

I’m actually having a hard time thinking this was really only 8 miles. I’m sure we went further, and it may be that my speedo quite working for a while, as it occasionally does. Anyway, this was my first daytime ride with Don. He seems to be enjoying it so much that he is constantly bugging me to go out places with him, which is nice, but sometimes irritating when I have work to do. But, this was one we agreed on earlier, as he has been craving lettuce and I’ve wanted to check out the Farmer’s Market.

So, we rode downtown and parked in the big car park. Then we trogged up and down the street market for the first time, looking at stuff. I snarfed two landmarks and later found out that I missed one, so I can come back, woo. We met the deputy mayor of Sunnyvale who talked to us very nicely and invited us to a re-election “meet the deputy mayor” kind of thing. But we had a lettuce quest to complete; we got fresh corn and garlic, but no head lettuce. So we then went up Murphy to check out a company Don was thinking of applying to, and then rode up on El Camino Real to the Sunnymount Produce shop, where I cleverly led us into some shade. Yay me. And I did just fine in moderate traffic.

I picked up the lettuce and some nuts at the shop, then we rode home via Bernardo and Evelyn. I am getting better at the coming home and sailing into my trailer park thing, too. But now we are a two-bike family we have these bike wars about who parks where and in what order. ;-)

And in the evening I got to meet Terry Pratchett, my favourite author since 1989, so overall it was a very cool day. :-)