I got up early on Saturday and went for a great bike ride up into Marin.  I ran into my friend Ben at the Cheese Factory .  He's one of my favoritest people.  Never mind what I've said about him behind is back and in print:

 
The Cheese Factory Lake was totally full and then some:

 
We ended up doing Marshall Wall together.  Ben is a much stronger athlete than I am and I really had to struggle to keep up with his pace which he had already sharply reduced for me.  Almost embarassing.  Maybe a little embarassing.  Here he is at the top of Marshall Wall:
 

The gorgeous view of Tamales Bay:

We had a big tailwind the whole way up and the whole way down.  Ben hit 50mph on his bike.  I went at a less crazy pace.  I stopped at a bucolic farm to get a pic.  Sadly, the pics of the adorable baby sheep didn't turn out because they were so precious.  I was praying they were sweater sheep and not dinner sheep:

We headed down to Tamales Bay and then into Point Reyes Station.  We stopped for a break.  I was dyin'.  It was the longest ride I'd done in a couple of months and I was riding a LOT faster than I usually do. 

We headed over the Olema Hill and then back up through Samuel P Taylor park to Fairfax.  Ben left me at the bottom of the Lagunitas side of White's hill and I was able to continue at a bit of a more merciful pace.  I stopped for more snack in Fairfax.  Here I am, ridden hard and put away wet:

I headed home and Mr. Poe had made me dinner.   I sat in the hot tub and went to bed early.

Bike Mileage:
Today                                                104.6
Week to date                                      263.6
Month to date                                    744.8
Year to date                                   1,749.4
To Goal                                          8,250.6
Over (Under) plan                             133.0
YTD Mileage vs Last Year                803.7
Rolling Year                                  11,543.4
Since Inception 10/1/07                 15,027.1

I got a few pics of Mr. Right doing the cracky shuffle at 7th and Market while I was on my way home for lunch.  Take away:  drugs are bad:

I also saw yet another fine example of San Francisco's vintage street car collection:

After work I headed off Howard to 11th to Harrison.  This gorgeous building is at 24th and Harrison I think:

I continuedon Harrison to 25th to Valencia to Tiffany to 29th to Wilder to Diamond to Monterey.  The fabulous Sunnyside Conservatory is getting a facelift.  It looks like they're pretty much rebuilding it.  I can't wait.  I  liked it before and I'm going to love it when they're done:

Me on Monterey:

I continued on Monterey into Santa Clara into Vicente.  I saw a cool mosaic on a bank at Vicente and Portal:

And an interesting scultpure as well:

I continued on Vicente to Wawona to Taravel to Dewey into Laguna Honda into 7th to Irving to 9th and into Golden Gate Park to MLK to Middle to JFK to the Panhandle to Stanyan to Page to Scott to Duboce to Noe to Market to 17th to Ord and home for dinner.  Mr. Poe was working late.  Yet again.  So the dogs and I had dinner and waited for him and then we all went to bed.

Bike Mileage:
Today                                                 36.4
Week to date                                     159.0
Month to date                                    640.2
Year to date                                    1,644.8
To Goal                                          8,355.2
Over (Under) plan                               55.8
YTD Mileage vs Last Year                738.5
Rolling Year                                 11,478.2
Since Inception 10/1/07                14,922.5