Archive for June 2, 2007
On the road with Burke: Exile on not so main street
June 2, 2007 by Bill Gould, Publisher.
Written By: Burke
Northern California - Feeling all re-energized and Up With People and stuff from my nice 4 hour nap in that pretty clearing by the stream, I got back on my bike and proceeded to pedal my ass off.
However….it was now looking like there was a damn good chance I wasn’t going to be able to make it all the way to San Francisco by bike. I was making pretty damn good time….in my first day of travel I had put in 80 miles. But to make it to my show, I would have to be in San Francisco by the next day, and I still had around 170 miles left to go, according to the roundabout directions I had (when you go from Chico to San Francisco without using any freeways, it adds an extra 60 miles to the trip).
So, by the afternoon, after I’d put in another 40 miles or so, I decided to change the route a bit and head to Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, CA….not Pittsburgh, PA), which was the closest BART stop to where I was at the time. (For those of y’all who haven’t been to San Francisco, BART is the Bay Area Rapid Transit, a train system that runs through San Francisco and through most of the towns within a 50-mile radius of San Francisco) There I would catch the BART train to take me into San Francisco so that I wouldn’t miss my gig.
So I called my buddy Dan up and he mapquested the directions to Pittsburgh for me.
Things went pretty smoothly until about 30 miles later, when I was twenty miles or so away from Pittsburgh, just outside of an obscure little town called Rio Vista.
I suddenly found myself on one of the worst damn highways in the world.
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