Rain! Who Knew?

It's Tuesday afternoon...1:43 PM... and the BART train is pulling out of the Dublin/Pleasanton station and we're heading to San Francisco.  In the rain... without our tandem.

Fortunately we got a ride in this morning around Pleasanton where I learned a great lesson about the bike paths there.  What starts out as a delightful asphalt path at some point turns to gravel.  Then, when you reach the end of the trail you find a locked gate, chain link fence and no way to exit the path (outside of some creative teamwork that involved lifting the bike over a barricade and having Valerie catch it on the other side).

In spite of it all we managed to get in 30 miles before the weather turned to liquid...