Dedicated readers of this exciting blog, may recall the cycling adventure of 9 October last year when I cycled from Davis through to West Sacramento to visit the Social Security offices (and returned into the teeth of a howling gale!). Today I decided to take a different route and cycled up to Woodland (a small town due North of Davis). The main reason was to visit the Target superstore there to find a suitable birthday present for someone who turned 13 today. As spring is starting to settle in and it is a beautiful, sunny day I set off on my bike. The round-trip was just under 30kms, so quite a nice ride after a rather long ride-less spell over the worst of winter. However, just like my ride to Sacramento the wind was not cooperating! Fortunately, this time I had the head wind on my way to Woodland and was able to simply gear down and slog away (average speed: 18.8km/h — better than I expected, actually).
I'm not sure why Woodland exists. It seems to have a juvenile reform centre, a bunch of newish housing developments (which look they act as a cheaper housing option for people working in Davis — the supply-and-demand factors in Davis are much the same as in Grahamstown, chasing rents and property prices sky high) and some large shops (the afore-mentioned Target, CostCo [think Makro on steroids and with much higher quality!] and Best Buy [a popular computer/hi-tech chain]). Oh yes, and (even more bizarrely!) a few hotel chains, which I suspect are trying to capitalise on the proximity of Sacramento's airport.
I had a successful shop at Target (perhaps a little too successful — I ended up buying some T shirts for myself too!), and treated myself to coffee at Starbucks before heading for home. And, of course, now I had a tail wind! :-) Average speed 27.4km/h, including a brief stop to visit a geocache on the route home!
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