{"id":425,"date":"2009-06-26T02:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveforthepath.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2025-01-23T12:07:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:07:40","slug":"day-24-american-canyon-ca-rio-vista-ca-brannan-island-state-recreational-area-back-on-the-road-mostly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liveforthepath.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Day 24 \u2013 American Canyon, CA \u2013 Rio Vista, CA (Brannan Island State Recreational Area) \u2013 Back on the Road \u2013 mostly."},"content":{"rendered":"

50 miles in 4 hours \u2013 Max Speed: 38.5mph<\/b><\/p>\n

The day dawned, and although I didn’t really want to, I knew it was time to move on and begin the next phase of my trip. I finished updating my website in the morning, had a massive breakfast, and then proceeded to pack everything up. When I finally had absolutely no possible way to procrastinate further I left and started back out on the road. <\/p>\n

\"Napa\"<\/a>

Napa<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Where<\/a>

Where trains go to die.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Bud.<\/a>

Bud. Wei. Ser.<\/p><\/div>\n

I use Google Street View pretty frequently to see how rideable roads appear, and I saw that highway 12 looked like a great road to take. I went up the main street through American Canyon until I hit highway 12, and then proceeded to take that for the next 40 or so miles to Rio Vista \u2013 or so I thought. Highway 12 was a great road to take for the first 20 or so miles, and then all of a sudden they erected jersey barriers in the lane and put blockers in the middle, so that it was physically not possible for me to fit with a car, and cars could not pass. It actually because physically impossible to ride that road. I really have no idea what in the world California is thinking.<\/p>\n

\"Not<\/a>

Not the part I complained about, but just another example of the state randomly forcing me into the travel lanes of the highway for no reason. Idiots.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Thanks.<\/a>

Thanks. Though this section did not have the stupid plastic barriers in the middle of the road.<\/p><\/div>\n

I got off the road ASAP and took a dirt path next to the road for a while, which is never fun fully loaded. I finally found a way around, and took a cross street up to a gravel road which I took for the last 10 miles into town.<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a>

I am in the middle of nowhere.<\/p><\/div>\n

Note: The following two videos are almost unwatchable because of the wind, sorry about that, I considered not posting a video today, but wanted to get something up. Sorry again for the quality. At least the wind was a tailwind!<\/i><\/p>\n