Hey folks,
I guess its time to announce the August 10th Sunday Morning Drive. This will be a back roads tour of Solano and Napa counties that will start in Martinez and head up to Lake Beryessa. Some really fun roads. We will make our first stop at the dam that holds back the lake. Then we head nortwest up Chiles Valley to the Pope Valley intersection where we climb up Howell Mtn and into the small community of Angwin. Some of the finest cabernet in Napa grows on this mountain. Next it is down the hill into Napa Valley with some awesome views of the wineries down below us as we descend to the Silverado trail. We will head south on the Silverado trail to Monticello road where we will head east to Wooden Valley Rd that will take us back to Fairfield. Then south where we will finish at the Scenic view point just before the Carquinez bridge.
I took the opportunity this morning to drive the route to check for fun things like newly sealed roads, pot holes etc and found a great combination of back roads that will make getting up in the morning well worthwhile. There is a mixture of curves and open highway that will let you open it up and work your brakes as well as bliping the rpm's on the downshifts. The trip is about 125 miles total and will have a few stops depending on who goes and what we decide we would like to do. The traffic is fairly light in the morning so an early start will have us share the roads with the biking crowd. If we leave later we end up dealing with the boat trailers (The bikers are much easier to get around). I would like to meet at the Starbucks in the Muir Station at 502 Center Ave, 1 block So. of Hwy.4 in Martinez. The big question is how early do you want to meet? If you are interested, let me know if meeting at 7:00 and on the road by 7:30am is too drastic. Remember those boat trailers !!
Hope to see you in Martinez.
Cheers,
I guess its time to announce the August 10th Sunday Morning Drive. This will be a back roads tour of Solano and Napa counties that will start in Martinez and head up to Lake Beryessa. Some really fun roads. We will make our first stop at the dam that holds back the lake. Then we head nortwest up Chiles Valley to the Pope Valley intersection where we climb up Howell Mtn and into the small community of Angwin. Some of the finest cabernet in Napa grows on this mountain. Next it is down the hill into Napa Valley with some awesome views of the wineries down below us as we descend to the Silverado trail. We will head south on the Silverado trail to Monticello road where we will head east to Wooden Valley Rd that will take us back to Fairfield. Then south where we will finish at the Scenic view point just before the Carquinez bridge.
I took the opportunity this morning to drive the route to check for fun things like newly sealed roads, pot holes etc and found a great combination of back roads that will make getting up in the morning well worthwhile. There is a mixture of curves and open highway that will let you open it up and work your brakes as well as bliping the rpm's on the downshifts. The trip is about 125 miles total and will have a few stops depending on who goes and what we decide we would like to do. The traffic is fairly light in the morning so an early start will have us share the roads with the biking crowd. If we leave later we end up dealing with the boat trailers (The bikers are much easier to get around). I would like to meet at the Starbucks in the Muir Station at 502 Center Ave, 1 block So. of Hwy.4 in Martinez. The big question is how early do you want to meet? If you are interested, let me know if meeting at 7:00 and on the road by 7:30am is too drastic. Remember those boat trailers !!
Hope to see you in Martinez.Cheers,
