San Francisco

We made it to the west coast!  We have been biking SF's many bike routes and even biked across the golden gate bridge!

Bike paths from Folsom To Davis, CA

Lots and lots of bikes paths! Biking along the 30 mile American River
Bike Trail through Sacramento

Bikes and Lakes

Carson Pass, California

We camped in the National Forest then climbed the 8500 ft pass. We
were south of Lake Tahoe but we saw tons of beautiful alpine lakes!

CALIFORNIA!

We crossed the border into CA and encountered the tiny sign...

Turning $1 into $3.58

Enough money for a meal at Mickey D's for two

All our gear

Nice compact camp site

Lahonton Reservoir, Nevada

$1 entrance fee for bikers! What a steal

Desert and sand dune outside Fallon, NV

Middlegate cont

Middlegate, Nevada photos

Some pictures from Middlegate, about 50 miles east of Carson City (capitol of state of Nevada)

The shoe tree...

Cool campsite

Nevada

We crossed into Nevada yesterday, state #10!

Scipio, Utah

Photo from Wednesday the 28th.  Taken by a fellow biker, Chip Latshaw, who is also a professional photographer.  He's traveling west to east and we are traveling east to west and our routes intersected in Scipio, Utah!

107 miles and NO water

 Utah - long stretches of road with no water.  Yesterday 107 miles with no water!

Utah

Last of Colorado

The view from the road behind... The new landscape contrasted with the snow capped Rockies

Camping in Colorado's Public lands

Views from our camp site at the Blue Mesa Reservoir

Biking in Salida

Library display- all biking books! We spent hours reading up on the
history of bikes, bike touring info, and the modern bicycle revolution.

Salida- bike friendly town

We stopped in Salida, CO for our "vacation" from the bikes. This town is full of cyclists of all ages! It is a common sight to see the bike racks outside the stores on the main street full of bikes! The Main St has the same feeling as downtown Newark, so I feel like we can learn from Salida. The town of Salida facilitates biking by marking county roads as "bike routes" and by having well signed bike paths. The more we bike, the more I realize how importantant is to have the bike info well signed. I definately think we should add more signs in Newark as well as painting bike symbols on the roads, I have seen these in action and they seem to be very effective! In addittion, both Salida and Newark have easily accessible mountain biking trails. I think we could try to inform students and the Newark community of these recreational trails to get them outside and having  fun!
In addition, Salida has consignment shops for outdoor gear and bikes which makes these activities more affordable. UD or Newark could look into something like this...