I headed south midday to meet up with M J and M J at Lake Cunningham Action Sports Park in San Jose. These guys are regulars – think every Saturday for several hours and and parking pass holders. Mostly for skating I’m told; today they politely brought their bikes so we could ride together too.

The bike specific part of the park has a dual slalom, jump line and a couple skills sections with rollers, rocks and narrow bridges. The concrete part with all the skaters is huge with many “swimming pool” features. All good for bikes to join in too, and swooping around in the gigantic full pipe and adjoining pool was awesome.

Plenty of folks between 8 and 14, and likewise late 30s to who knows. Where was everyone else?

We luv the opportunity repetition provides and at places like this we can repeat the same thing easily. True story: my first time riding the Downieville Downhill I nearly went over the bars a couple of times at the top because I didn’t know the enjoyment that comes from moving my weight back at the right time. Still, and I am very thankful I didn’t go over along the way, drop after drop was great for getting the groove. Be that as it may, I lost count of how many times I rerode the slalom. Somewhere during those runs so I could get more turns for climbing effort, I began turning around when there was only on more juicy turn and then the rest pump your bike stuff.

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Post park I headed further south to M G and Mme H’s place. Great to see you guys and Thank You for the laptop donation and repairing the wires amigo! The car again goes boom!!

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Folks, driving here is just nuts. Crashes and then people doing even crazier things to get past the ensuing traffic jam. Astonishingly speedy weaving.

Home at last and what a divine supper of asparagus, fish and rice. With wasabi and kambucha. And the best company.