Day 16 - A Lot of Humor and a Little Biking

Day 16 - Colusa to Yuba City.
The park is only a block from the motel and the early morning light is calling again.

This is still the Sacramento River but it is actually looking smaller as it heads to the ocean, likely the result of irrigation withdrawals.

Our cheerful host at breakfast.

She watched over our meal.

Since we have a short day ahead of us, a little bike maintenance is the cool of the morning seemed appropriate.

Our host, Thakor, provided rags and moral support. He moved here from Zambia 20 years ago and we had a very interesting chat as he and Donna watched Doug work.

Colusa businesses really get into Halloween. Almost everyone had some kind of humorous decoration outside their doors.

They were also having a quilt show today with quilts in many of the windows of downtown businesses as advertisement.

This lady was our favorite.

We are traveling east on Highway 20. Have we said how much we dislike rumble strips!!! It is particularly distressful when they added the rumble strip only after the shoulder got narrow. Fortunately, there wasn't much traffic because we rode in the lane a good deal of the time through this stretch.

Sutter Buttes is a complex of eroded volcanic lava domes, sometimes referred to as the world's smallest mountain range, according to Wikipedia. We will be at their base later.

Goodby Sacramento River. We have enjoyed your company.

Can we get much lower??

More walnuts!

Tomatoes going one way, walnuts the other.

And one BIG tractor.

Is this how they get sun dried tomatoes?

Sutter Buttes up close and personal.

We are sure there is a story that goes with these palm trees.

We found a bike path.....

....which led us past this pond full of curlews.....

....and this back fence garden.

This is better!

We knew we would like this place, the Corner Bike Shop.

Andrew and Johnny made sure we had full water bottles, full tires, empty bladders and a new bottle of bike lube.

After a nice dip in the motel's pool, we had plenty of time to bike to St. Isidore Catholic Church for the Saturday Vigil Mass.

Dinner was followed by a huge single scoop ice cream cone at Brock's Ice Cream, obviously a local favorite on a very warm Saturday evening.