Thursday, October 4, 2007

2.5 weeks later, I'm biking to Hoes Down Festival

Right now, I'm in Shields Library, just finished my differential equations homework and planning my trip to Hoes Down Festival in Capay Valley this Saturday. It's a 40 miler (not too bad, and pretty much flat) and I will be going with a couple other Davis riders. They have free camping for bicyclists and volunteers, so I will be doing both, helping with the WERC re-usable dish stations, and maybe see my sister there.

It's really nice to be back in Davis. I feel like a different person than I was when I first started this bike trip. My classes are Urban Forestry, Human Sexuality, Differential Equations, and Biology. My housemates are Marguerite, Q, Jennifer, Sunny, Erich, Liz, Christine, Raven, Noah, Sarah, Dan, and my roommate Jessie. DSC has a ginormous kitchen now after the big renovation, and that seems like a big enough change to make living there way more enjoyable for everyone. The gardens are amazing: right now I've been eating fresh pomegranates, persimmons, and raspberries from the garden, and cooking onions, garlic, squash, basil, egglplant, tomatoes, greens, and more. The new compost director, Alden Seabolt, is stellar and making me feel like everything is under control (it was, to be honest, a big thing for me to pass on). I'm glad to finally feel like I can keep up with my school work and have time to go on runs (I still plan on running the Davis Turkey Trot, which I finished 4th in last year, 30 seconds behind the winner). I hope to run it faster this year.

Today, just ran into an old running teammate of mine who was a freshman when I was a senior at Loyola High School. He just started his freshman year at UC Davis.

Well, time to go to sleep.

For a link to Sarah's bike profile on the Adventure Cycling website, click here: (mine will go up soon enough)
http://www.adventurecycling.org/ride_registry/detail.cfm?r=18AEF448