The Usual Suspects

On July 13, 2024, I wrote that I rode to Venga for an empanada before taking a couple trains to 12th street BART. I saw the usual suspects preparing for East Bay Bike Party . Some people from CRAP ride were there.

The ride went up San Pablo for a while. I chatted with a lady I know from Walnut Creek. I then rotated through the crowd for a long time. There was only one real gap. At the end I saw the seep and headed back to the front.

We entered Berkeley. The ride ended up on Sacramento. It was a nice route. We ended up at Roz Park. I settled in with a buddy of mine at first. I saw a coworker – she was not very friendly. I hung out with the same people I always see but I also saw some welcome new faces.

The ride headed to the Ohlone path. I chatted with a guy about his foldable bike. That section of the ride was really long – Albany to Richmond. We crossed the BART tracks and headed into Richmond. We were supposed to go to Unity Park but ended up at Richmond Bart.

I spoke to a neighbor from my hood. She had just gotten back from Roseville. I saw one of the people from CRAP who always brings his little dog. There were a lot of ladies.

I caught a train with the guy who runs a bike donation shop in Fruitvale. My car had this Hawaiian guy and his buddy. They were with this couple. He had a brnd new e-cargo bike.

I went to bed after packing at 1:30 in the morning. In the morning of the day that I wrote this I was writing and I got on the ferry to climb Pine Mountain.

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.