More Biking

We biked the entire Sacramento River Trail today, starting with the westward parts that we missed yesterday. At the westward end, the trail crosses the Sacramento River on another unique pedestrian bridge, the Ribbon Bridge. It's a concrete stress ribbon bridge, which means that it has no piers and is supported by cables hidden in the bridge and anchored to bedrock.

We continued up to the Keswick Dam and checked out the Sacramento Rail Trail, which runs from Keswick up to Shasta Dam. It's gravel, not paved, and the first part at least is steep, so we turned around and rode back to Turtle Bay. We spent a few minutes in McConnell Arboretum & Botanical Gardens checking out the Mosaic Oasis and the Lookout Tree that our neighbors, Mark and Cathy, had recommended.

The bike path crosses the Sacramento River on the ribbon bridge.

Colleen Barry's "Mosaic Oasis" is made of concrete, ceramic, glass, stone, and found materials.

After lunch we did our laundry, grocery shopped, and filled up with diesel. To fit the groceries in the fridge, I ended up defrosting, which was an overdue chore. For dinner we had corn on the cob, turkey burger/chicken tender sandwiches, and sweet potato fries (partly to remove some things from the freezer--the fries had come from Dallas....).