Well we walked into Berkley and cruised up and down 4th ST (thier shopping district) -ho hum- lots of yuppie shops, kind of like NW 23rd ST in Portland. We walked around town a little and picked up some groceries before heading back to the boat, about 5 to 6 miles round trip. Sunday we walked out the Berkley Pier, about 1/2 to 3/4 mi. long and thats only 1/2 as long as the original wooden pier, the channel is so shallow that they had to build the pier out to deep water (18'to 20') to reach the old sailing ships so they could unload.
Monday we headed to Alameda and stopped at Oakland Y.C. nice people, nice club they share part of their docks with Encinel Y.C. also a nice club and nice members and they have a swimming pool. One of Encinel's members ran me around to several boat yards to look for a chock, no luck, only parts for small boats, Sat. we will go to a swap meet at Ballena Bay Y.C. on the other side of the island, I did find Calif. chart cartridges for my chart plotter at a used parts store, we got our bikes out and rode down 10 blocks to the local shopping center, had our pictures taken to renew our Passports, Wed. we had lunch at the club then we rode across the island to the Post Office at the Mall and mailed our passports in, then we cruised around the residential neighborhoods on our way back to look at some of the beautiful victorian homes and the cute '30's stucco bungalows, 4 1/2 hrs. on a bike will make your butt pucker!!
Thurs. I spent some time on the computer designing cards with our boat and our names on them because we have traded cards with so many people we ran out of the ones we had, then I rode to the other end of the island to an industrial boat yard and they are going to look for a chock for me. When I left they gave me a pen with their name and infomation on so I could call them, as I was riding off I was trying to hold the pen up with one hand and read it and I did not see the speedbump! Opps, over the bars and ROAD RASH! Looks worse than it really is.
Sun. we will be heading out to the Bay and plans are to head out and down the coast on Monday. We'll write more when we get to Half moon Bay.
Irv & LaVon
Monday we headed to Alameda and stopped at Oakland Y.C. nice people, nice club they share part of their docks with Encinel Y.C. also a nice club and nice members and they have a swimming pool. One of Encinel's members ran me around to several boat yards to look for a chock, no luck, only parts for small boats, Sat. we will go to a swap meet at Ballena Bay Y.C. on the other side of the island, I did find Calif. chart cartridges for my chart plotter at a used parts store, we got our bikes out and rode down 10 blocks to the local shopping center, had our pictures taken to renew our Passports, Wed. we had lunch at the club then we rode across the island to the Post Office at the Mall and mailed our passports in, then we cruised around the residential neighborhoods on our way back to look at some of the beautiful victorian homes and the cute '30's stucco bungalows, 4 1/2 hrs. on a bike will make your butt pucker!!
Thurs. I spent some time on the computer designing cards with our boat and our names on them because we have traded cards with so many people we ran out of the ones we had, then I rode to the other end of the island to an industrial boat yard and they are going to look for a chock for me. When I left they gave me a pen with their name and infomation on so I could call them, as I was riding off I was trying to hold the pen up with one hand and read it and I did not see the speedbump! Opps, over the bars and ROAD RASH! Looks worse than it really is.
Sun. we will be heading out to the Bay and plans are to head out and down the coast on Monday. We'll write more when we get to Half moon Bay.
Irv & LaVon
Love the pix! You guys are awesome! It's finally summer here in MT so I've been kinda busy but trust me when I say that your adventures do my heart good. Hugs to you both!
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