The Bus in Willits

On April 19, 2024, I wrote that the day before I had made a reservation for a room in Willits and an Amtrak bus ticket before going home and getting dinner. I was in bed at midnight.

I woke in the morning of the day that I wrote this at six and I left my apartment with my bike at seven. The staff at the Peet’s Van on Ness saw I was earlier than normal but I told them I was not gong to work.

I caught a 101 bus at 7:20 in Civic Center and some guy sat right next to me all over the Golden Gate Bridge. Thankfully he got off in San Rafael. I got off the bus in Petaluma and went to a café. I also checked out the bike path to Corona Road. There were rail crews working on the tracks out there. The path to Ely I noted was still not done.

I got more coffee and then waited at the bus stop – I was worried that the Amtrak bus driver would reject me and my bike. However, I was surprised to discover that he was happy to take my bike.

The trip to Ukiah was OK. I went to the Ross department store and Baskin Robbins ice cream shop before the bus headed out. When I got off the bus in Willits, I went to my hotel room on a set of dirt paths near the railroad tracks. That was nice.

I returned to the side of town near the Skunk Train to visit the brewery. Then I went to the hotel again. Unfortunately, the seat on my bike broke. I wrote that I was planning on exploring the town and getting a beer.

This is an occasional series chronicling my life. This Notebook Analysis series is meant to be contemporaneous piece developed as an agglomeration of my notebook pages. In each of these posts I used my notes to develop my recent thoughts.