Caltrain to Menlo Park

On September 22, I wrote that I got up at 10 and rode my electric cargo bike to the train station to catch the newly electric Caltrain to Menlo Park. When I got there, I discovered my bike’s batteries were low, which made me sad. I had coffee and rode through town to Alpine Drive and found my way to Arastradero Creek and Portola Road.

I stopped at Roberts Market for a snack and then I went to Old La Honda Road. I had to ride the whole way on low power because I had range anxiety over my batteries. Portions of Portola Road are fine but sometimes the motorists are not accommodating for even e-bikers.

When I got to Old La Honda, I climbed the road for a few miles until I had a nice view of the San Andreas Fault Zone below and ate lunch before heading back. I tried to use Farm Road but everything out there is gated, which was sad because Portola is teaming with terrible motorists.

I made it back to Alpine and Sandhill pretty quick, I was using low power the whole time. Alpine is all downhill so it wasn’t terrible at low power. I noted that an acquaintance called me and I agreed to meet him in Palo Alto.

There were events all weekend for Caltrain because of their newly electrified system. When I got there, I chatted with a few people I knew pretty well. We traded all we could about each other. For instance a few people had moved to San Jose. I also found out that Mountain Charlie Road above Santa Cruz had a blowout and that was sad.

The ride back to San Francisco was just like normal for me except it was faster.

 
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