In Your Travels

Saturday Ride in SD

Well since I stepped on a piece of glass on Thanksgiving, I decided to forgo the SDBC ride as I didn't want to overdo my foot. I spent all Friday on the couch watching NFL replay and Inside the NFL, also the Floyd interview on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. My 2 year old can now say "Touchdown"! And my dad taught him to pound (touch fists). So that meant the Friday plans (go to San Diego harbor to see some ships) were pushed back to Saturday and I wanted to save some energy, so I decided to do 2 hours on the bike.

I rode out past Fairbanks ranch in ritzy Rancho Santa Fe and was pleased to find that where that road used to dead-end, it continued. So I kept on going, enjoying the gentle rise of the road which made it easy to hit the target HR. The road finally T'd so I turned right and I stopped for a nature break. Right after that I saw a group coming down the road so I went and caught up to them. They were some kind of team or something because they were all aboard Bill Holland Titanium bikes, all eight of them. We meandered into Rancho Bernardo as they went exploring for a route that would take them inland and then back down to Point Loma, where they had started. All these roads were new, in perfect shape, and had wide shoulders with bike lanes. I reached my time limit and turned around after chatting with them for a bit. Real nice folks, I'll try to hook up with them again next time I'm out there.

Later I went and saw a Soviet Submarine B 39 I think it was called and the replica Age of Sail British Frigate HMS Rose aka Surprise as seen in Master and Commander, the Far Side of the World. Also we went to the San Diego Maritime musuem which is aboard the old steam ferry Berkeley. Great fun, there was a pirate exhibit aboard the Rose, as well as a modeled lay-out of the Battle of Trafalger, a famous sea battle that featured something like 60 Ships of the Line. The neatest thing was to go into the Captain's cabin. The most spacious room on the ship, it was still only about as 12'x16' or something, and featured two gun ports.

posted by Mark @ 7:20 AM