July on a Bike

Day one goes wrong.


THE PLAN:
Leave hotel
Head to Bridge
Begin
45 miles to campsite

ACTUAL DAY ONE:
We leave the hotel.
40 meters later, We realize Kayla's back tire has a nail in it. We head to REI...negative progress. It gets fixed..we are running late. We head to the bridge, take the CALTRAIN (bad idea), we end up going through part of san Francisco that was not meant to be ridden by bike. Here's the stairs we had to climb to get out of the train station.
 

We bike through San Francisco city streets. It's cold and we make a turn and see massive hills at ridiculous grades. We walk some of them. It took a long time to get to the bridge and we stopped at a bike shop. Kayla got a front rack and front panniers. 

We eventually begin. It's cold and we only made it to Vallejo, CA.  About 25 miles shy of our target for the day.

This was at the coast, our starting point.
 

NEXT TIME ON THE BLOG....Kayla's front derraileur is busted and we try to fix it.