Bicycle Day

This year's 'Bicycle Day' was wicked fun. It started out with me leaving Santa Rosa at like 5am on 4 hours of sleep just barley making it off the 80 in time to ride my ass to the CalTrain station but ended up having tons of time because Ian, knowing everyone would be late, lied about the train time and we all made it with plenty of time to spare. It was good plan.

We got off somewhere in the Palo Alto and road around what used to be a dump which is now covered in dirt and looks like a vast bird preserve. At one point Reed and Colin road off down a no outlet trail and came back with a random Rat head. Which caused Rubin to say "What the fuck man!" like 40 times. Classic Rubin.

The weather could not have been more perfect. There was not a cloud in the sky and it was in the high 90s with the occasional pleasant warm wind. I thought I could get through the day without wearing any sun screen but it turns out I spent about 3 or 4 more hours then my computer nerd skin could take.

At one point we all stopped forever at the bathrooms when most people started to eat lunch and enjoy the shade. I and some other really wanted to keep riding so we just road around that area and had a blast flying down a fairly sized hill. I wish i knew the limits of the traction on my bike so i could confidently take corners more sharply.

After we left the reclaimed dump we road the surface streets toward Stanford. Sam, Reed, myself and a couple other people i don't know enough to remember there names got off track somehow and road over a pedestrian overpass which had an awesome chain-link fence obstacle course to encourage people to walk there bikes. It was a lot of run to navigate.

It took forever to regroup. It was amazing, even considering, that we we're incapable to using some of the most advanced consumer navigational technology and yet Ian had to physically come get us. Silly.

Once we got back to the Caltrain station we all got some yummi fruit and water and sat in a park for a few hours as the day faded away. A little more then half of the group decided to take off back to the north or east bay and the remaining group, including my self, road forth to Stanford to check out the campus art.

After checking out the Gates of Hell we gave Ian a silly birthday card that when you opened it a little girls voice said something to the effect of "I love you Mommy, have a happy day. beep beep" It was adorably retarted.

We left the campus, took caltrain back to SF. Reed, Rubin, Reed's brother and I broke off to stop by Rubin's office to get Reed's brothers bag. I learned that Rubin is working for startup which is pretty cool. Then we all headed over to mella and stopped off to get some bomb Mexican food first. Awesome salsa.

When I got back to Mella's house tons of people were there. I was exahsted and I feel alseep cuddeling with Qarly.

Yay awesome weekend.

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