I'm really enjoying these suggestions. Thank you all for taking the time to respond.
I'll be in Sacramento the last week of July. My day to play is Saturday, July 30. I assume this puts me right in the heart of busy tourist time. A few of my friends suggested renting a car and traveling to the Napa wine country or to Muir's Woods, but the idea of driving at all - much less on a Saturday - has absolutely no appeal. I'm pretty happy to use public transportation. I do really like Kurt's suggestion to take the ferry from Oakland to San Francisco. That in itself should be an enjoyable experience. The idea of renting a bike (bike share program, I assume) and then wheeling around the city sounds cool - especially going over the Golden Gate Bridge. This seems like a very fun-filled, human-speed approach to seeing what the city has to offer. If I follow Kurt's suggestion, do you still think it would be possible to visit Rivendell? If I get up really early and take an early train from Sacramento, I probably could arrive in Walnut Creek around the time that the store opens. From my google-mapping (is that a real term), it looks like I should be able to walk from the BART station to both the headquarters building and to the new Bike, Book and Hatchet store. If I got back on the train sometime between 12 - 1 and headed for Oakland, it would seem to me that I would still have a lot of time to explore San Francisco by bike. Am I crazy to think this way? Would I really be able to borrow a bike at Riv that I could ride to Mt. Diablo? That seems really cool? I assume that I would need to contact them ahead of time to see if a bike was available. I couldn't possibly just show up, say hello, and then ask to borrow a bike for a few hours, could I? Obviously I have a lot more thinking, and reading to do. Obviously I have a lot of time before I need to decide what to do. I've paged though some tourism web site and will likely pick up a guidebook for the region as well. However, given all of the local knowledge in this group, I knew that you would have tremendous suggestions. Thanks again. Keep the good ideas coming! Sean On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 8:24:41 PM UTC-4, Jim M. wrote: > > One day with the need to make public transit connections will be a big > time constraint. The Giants play in a great stadium, and because it's an > even year, you'll be seeing them on their way to another world series. If > you really want to visit RBW, you could make that a day by borrowing a bike > from them (or from a local lister), and taking a ride in the foothills of > Mt. Diablo, or all the way up if you're in good shape. It might be a 100 > degree day in late July, but, hey, it's a dry heat. There are plenty of > listers who would volunteer as tour guide should you choose that option. > Alcatraz, meh, watch *The Rock* and you'll see most of it. > > jim m > wc, ca > > On Monday, May 30, 2016 at 1:32:42 PM UTC-7, SeanMac wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm hoping for some advice for a trip that I will be taking in late >> July. I will be spending a bit more than a week in Sacramento >> participating in a seminar for teachers on the Transcontinental Railroad. >> The seminar ends on a Friday evening, but I decided to extend my visit a >> bit so that I have a day to play / explore before getting on a train to >> head home (to Buffalo, NY) on Sunday morning. >> >> I'm a Midwestern boy - never having ventured west beyond St. Louis, >> Missouri. It is possible that this will be the only time that I will ever >> be in California, so I am looking for advice about what I should do on a >> Saturday in late July. >> >> One option, of course, is to visit Riv headquarters in Walnut Creek. I >> certainly am considering doing just that. I'd love comments regarding how >> high this should be on my list of things to do (yes, I know that this list >> is pretty biased). I've also thought about attending a Giants baseball >> game, or simply walking around Fisherman's Wharf / Ghiradelli Square in >> downtown San Francisco. A few friends have also suggested a visit to >> Alcatraz. >> >> The only real constraint that I have is that I will need to rely on >> public transportation to get from Sacramento to wherever I decide to go. I >> also would love to be back in Sacramento before it gets too late on >> Saturday so that I can make my train home on Sunday morning. >> >> Thanks for your suggestions. Please respond off list to : >> sean...@gmail.com >> >> Sean >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
