Day 15: Rodeo to Vallejo

Day 15:  Rodeo To Vallejo

May 4th, 2017

10.6 miles in 5 hours 0 minutes

Most of the day's story can be read from the accounting of variable expenses below.  As you can tell I'm overlooking any "fixed" expenses (like new hiking shoes).  I'm just watching the money flow.  

And I'm also looking at it upside down.  It really isn't a balance, but a total outflow of cash for this trek -- which peaked today when I took SamTrans to Caltrain to BART to the Vallejo Ferry to Vallejo, and then stayed the night in Vallejo.

Waiting for the 5:39 Caltrain in San Carlos

Departing the San Francisco Ferry Building on the Way to Vallejo

I was always planning an overnight stay at the north end of the bay.  I realized today was the day when I ended the previous day within striking distance of the Vallejo Ferry terminal.

Vallejo Ferry Terminal

And it would give me an early start the next morning on traversing CA 37 (starting on Mare Island) across the north end of the bay, a ten mile trek along a highway shoulder far away from civilization the whole time.

Mare Island Naval Complex

More pictures will be forthcoming for my exciting trek on public transportation (oh and over the Carquinez Bridge as well).  But I botched getting both my computer and my phone on the same WiFi last night, and uploading a day of pictures over this cafe's WiFi just isn't happening.  And the highway beckons...

The Carquinez and its Shadow Bridge

Day 15:  Rodeo to Vallejo

Accounting: 

    Starting Balance                                     (110.00)

• Uber Earnings on day off                              (27.25)
• Bridge Tolls to date                                   24.00
• SamTrans ECR to San Carlos Station                      2.05
• Caltrain to Millbrae                                    3.75
• BART to Embarcadero                                     4.65
• Vallejo Ferry to Vallejo                               10.40
• Uber to Rodeo                                          15.58
• Uber back from Mare Island to Vallejo                   6.93
• Vallejo Travellodge                                    89.00
• Frymation Dinner                                       20.00
• Characters Saloon O'Douls                               6.00
• Coffees                                                 5.00

    Ending Balance                                         50.11

Kombucha of the Day -- Root Beer

Voice Notes:

The speed of this catamaran cruising out of the terminal is amazing.

The refineries occupy some of the best future parkland of the San Francisco Bay area.

The new Carquinez Strait bridge seems to be what brought this really nice part of the bay trail into existence.

Holding up a single finger when you want to ask a question of a person who's otherwise engaged is the universal signal? Seems sort of ambiguous. 

Vallejo seems like Lake City on Lake Pepin to me.

I like each Instagram post, either mine or others, to have a bubble of creativity, a wry slice of something interesting.

HTTP://circlebay.blogspot.com return

Not that bad a dictation of the URL.  I only had to remove a space.

Vallejo could be a seriously cool place.