TMI for a mother. Can't you sit home and live in a bubble?

LOL, Mine asks me to do that as well..

Also My Boss really isn't excited about my 3000+ Miles Road Trip to Cali, worried I'm not gonna make it back to work.

congratulations on your first time getting drenched on a bike with NADT you can do about it!

also, wtih regards to the metal teeth. After riding for several years, my personal favorite for surfaces that freak me out is... asphalt that is being resurfaced, and has just been chewed up and has all of those grooves parallel to the direction of travel. It makes you feel like you're on one of those track car rides from childhood, not in a good way!

it almost looks like the shape of texas

those metal teeth are expansion joints, and should be present in well engineered metal bridges everywhere.

Ah, thanks for the vocab. Wikipedia's picture of an expansion joint doesn't look scary enough, though. :)

Let me get this straight: you biked 44 miles in the middle of the night in the middle of the work week, in fog and rain, and some clown nearly creamed you when he ran a red light--and you think it was "good times!" and thought the experience was fun? Brad, you either have too much energy or you are from another planet. :)

What Google maps feature gets you a Topo button?

Somebody hacked it using the Google Maps API plus some other abusive javascript. Search around... you'll find it.

Fun time!

From the news reports here, it sounded like the whole freeway system -- or at least the whole 80/580/880 interchange -- was shut down by the fire last weekend.

It still is, but it's free getting up to Berkeley (at least at night. during the day it probably blows...)

going the other way across the san rafael bridge is surreal at night at 120mph with no traffic.
the lights are all evenly spaced, and you sorta zen out

I think 85 mph is about my limit. Not sure about the bike's limit. :)

yeah- bikes get sketchy above 120...
i did 140 indicated once (prolly 130 IRL), and the wind buffetting on the helmet was so bad i couldn't see-
do it in a car :)

My scooter club used to meet every Thursday at Dylan's (now homestead) and about once a month someone would say "Three bridges?" and off we'd go. An hour later we'd be back in the pub with a pint. I have great memories of that ride.

I guess I didn't pick a very original route, eh? :)

except I think you went the expensive way. If you go north first you only have to pay on one bridge.

Ah, I was wondering about that. Good to know!

Yeah, those expansion joints on the Golden Gate Bridge are pretty wide:

I remember it being even worse than that. Is that in the center? The ones at about the thirds from the edges seemed different/bigger.

I took that about four and a half years ago and I think it was just under the tower on the San Francisco side.