Alllllmmmost there!

So close! I definitely could have finished off the trip today, but I've got a schedule to keep. I'm a little over 30 miles away :)

Went through Wine Country: Napa and Sonoma valleys. Lots of vinyards and wineries. It was hilly, but not too bad. There were three passes through mountains that were about 300' climbs and not very steep.

I'm doing my own routing to get into SF. Overall it wasn't too bad but there was one iffy section in high traffic where the shoulder went away in the middle of construction. Got yelled at by two cars but didn't have any close calls. Having "Share the Road" signs up in work areas is quite nice.

I did 52 miles, though a few of those were because I routed around route 37 to minimize my time on it, which turned out to be a mistake because for the short time I was on it I had a 10' shoulder. Ahh well.

I also changed my destination midway because the cheap motels in Petaluma are too out of the way. I'm in Novato: a little north of San Fran. I keep looking for ocean but there's too many mountains in the way!

I can't believe the trip is almost over! During Nevada I was totally ready to be done because it was just day after day of really hard riding ever since Colorado, but now I'm definitely going to miss it.

The only problem now is how cold it is. I start in the 50s and the max is in the low 70s. San Fran is even colder. Tomorrow's high is 56!

The winds suck too, but I'm quite used to that by now.