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Oh no! No worries! I hope your dog's okay.
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Hope your pup is doing ok now Bryan.
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05-12-2019, 03:55 AM | #5436 |
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Thanks guys, she is doing much better. Basically got a huge gash along her eye brow (doing god knows what in the back yard) that needed stitches. I tried cleaning it and bandaging it the night before but she kept pawing at it and it kept bleeding, so decided to take her to the vet the following morning, got her sorted out, dropped her off at home, then headed over to the east bay.
First stop was to Orinda for some breakfast. There's this place called Village Inn cafe that served really good corned beef hash but is under new management (original owner retired). Menu was very similar so I went with my regular: corned beef hash, 2 eggs over easy and a waffle. It was close, but just not the same. Then hopped on to wildcat canyon-cut thru golf course-grizzly peak. Stopped by the over look to check out the view of the bay but it was unfortunately still foggy, even at 10am. I then proceeded further down grizzly peak, to skyline, pinehurst and redwood. The road brought back so many memories, lots of very familiar corners and yet a lot of its "character" has changed. So many sections have gotten gnarly or have been repaired since the year or so I've last been here. Some of the larger pot holes have been repaired but I hated how the transitions between the old and fresh asphalt are so abrupt, they really unsettled the car (I would have been much easier to just swerve or changer your line around the pot hole). Also, WTF is up with bay area cyclists?! I usually give plenty of space for them, but how am I supposed to go around you if you are taking the whole lane? Even worse, I've come across 2-3 cyclists riding side by side at least a couple of times who would refuse to go single file for me to get around them. "share the road" my @$$ By the time I made it down the hill, I felt like I was robbed the pleasure, so I decided to turn around at the xmas tree farm and go back up and out to fish ranch rd. By this time, it was around 1pm and there was a good amount of slower traffic. Hopped back on to 24 and headed home after that. Too bad, I really wanted to head down south and get some artichoke bread, but maybe next time, when I head to Canepa |
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Went up and down hwy 9 yesterday about 3pm. Nice drive, lots of cars out in the good weather. Two guys in a shiny new red car went off course toward the top, but didn't look like anyone was hurt.
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Wife and I did a pie run today. Gizdich was quite busy. Found a deli in town, Carmonas Bbq Deli, and had a great brisket sammy before pie. Nice weather.
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05-13-2019, 12:19 AM | #5439 | |
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On the bright side, going that early meant I only caught one car and one bicyclist north bound on Redwood and got by both quickly. |
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Several months back I was on a nice smooth road at like 8pm, two lanes in my direction. No bike lane but there's a parallel service/residential road with absolutely no traffic that time of night. But.. a cyclist decides to take the right lane (slightly downhill) and slow down all the traffic. I wind up being behind him (he's center but shaded a bit more toward the other lane on the left) and I want to pass of course. But he wasn't really letting me (speed limit there is 35mph iirc and at this point I'm going maybe 25-30mph-ish). So I do a couple quick honks to let him know he's holding up traffic. I finally get a chance to pass him, but wind up at a red light at the end of the long block. And of course he catches up, slaps his hand hard on my driver side window (he either wanted to break it or thought it'd be open, asshole), and rides through the red light into the intersection all the way into the opposite direction side opposite from me. Like wtf. I finally got a two way dashcam last month because I'm tired of these cyclists and the dumbass drivers in the bay who can't drive worth shit.
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I was able to get in my usual 17,Bear Creek to Boulder Creek, 9 thru Saratoga loop yesterday between storms about 2:30. Sun came out here and there. There were several places down to one lane with flagmen with crews trimming trees and doing cleanup, but overall roads are pretty good.
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LOVE doing this route. Bear Creek is a great road.
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I had a great time today in the Lotus.
Went 17 to Bear Creek, had a beer at Joe's Bar, and came down 9. My usual "get out of the house" drive. It was very interesting for this time of year. It was sunny all the way to Boulder Creek, then on the top of 9 it was so foggy i had to slow down to 60. It was foggy and rainy. Then half way down 9 tword Saratoga the sun was back out. I had to use my windshield wiper for the first time. |
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Lol, I remember driving by while you two were chatting.
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I had another clean run Northbound on Redwood/Pinehurst/Grizzly Peak early yesterday. So there is one advantage to being old and getting up early.
Only caught three cyclists going the same direction. All were on Pinehurst and I was able to get by them quickly. One was barely moving uphill in one of the tight sections so even though I wasn't going too quickly I came up right on him coming around a corner. And there was barely any visibility on Grizzly Peak again. |
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