Tomato's And Beyond

I started to take my traveling compadre to SFO this morning. Her flight has been scheduled for weeks, but moments before we loaded up the car, the message came in “Fright Canceled”. A quick call on the MVP line resulted in more confusion. Then some flights from SJO, but before we went south instead of north another text said go to SFO and Alaska will motor coach you to OAK for a flight to SEA-ANC.

The Friendly Sky's

This was the best option for my compadre, Marco the coach driver and especially me because driving the car to the airport I discovered the City was very foggy and my plan to leave on the bike in a T shirt and sunglasses would result in hypothermia.

Once the car was parked, I suited up with chaps and jacket, before backing a heavy OHMS out of the garage. We powered up the hill and road back to the freeway, and the fog.

The bikes tires must have been out of round from sitting and the gps was irritated by the thumping. I knew where I needed to get, but the GPS had very different route planed that included city streets, and strange freeway exits. I ignored the GPS and focused on freeway city traffic. The GPS kept busy recalculating.

About an hour out of the City the traffic thinned. And near Davis I turned of I 80 onto old highway 99.

The University of California has its agriculture campus at Davis. One of the crops they grow is sunflowers. Miles and miles, of sunflowers, they grow. Most of which were drying in the fields and ready for harvest.  

The Ever Photogenic Sunflower

This is also prime tomato country, and nothing is more spectacular than semi-trucks with two trailers full of tomatoes going around corners and spewing tomatoes to the ground.

Ketchup is on the Bottom

East and north is the longest way to travel across California but that is my route for today and if everything goes well, I should land in Alturas California this evening.

Deer Happen In Alturas