Thursday, February 22, 2007

If stranded on a desert island...

I would go stir crazy.



BUT



If while stranded in my car, with my bike, I could only have 1 book, it'd be this one. If you don't own this book, BUY NOW! The theme of the book is rides across California where you are likely to see no cars. Every ride I've ever done in it has lived up to its name. From Santa Barbara, we hopped in the car, drove towards Paso Robles, literally pulled off at the designated exit from 101, and within 10min. of riding were on rolling hills which rival Tuscany in their vineyard-y beauty. Hot diggity dog!


The course at Snelling won't be found in this book. So sometimes you have to leave the dream cycling behind for a day of fun, flair, and fierce racing! See ya'll there.



2 comments:

PAB(a.k.a.CID) said...

alicat, thanks for the minty water and the use of your chair today, and especially the company.

that's the stuff that makes the races fun to go to.

Chico Cyclist said...

I LOVE this book!! Bodfish is a friend too - and what a great guy to put things back into perspective. He's got some other, uh, booklets out(not really much to them) about cycling in northern California. And back in the day - 80-81-82 - that dude rode everywhere.