day 2

we awoke at mikes with fresh watermelon, bananas, and bagels to energize us for our ride up to Folsom via Sacramento. we were a bit sore but stretched it out and loaded up. once again, Davis is a sweet town and in the top 10 cities for biking i think in the world (don't quote me people). we basically rode bike paths out of davis to sacramento to folsom; it was glorious!

it was hot out but what do you expect, its california in the summer. so we got to sacramento and went past the river so we thought "how about a swim?", so we just dove right in with our bike stuff on. it was really cold, and when i say dive, i mean wade in until we get numb and then dunk ourselves. it was so refreshing! there were some cool kids boogie boarding and doing tricks there. gonna try to upload a little video of it. we then were on a long awesome bike path through sacramento for like 20 miles; i think we encountered a couple hundred bikers and saw some sweet tandem riders who were training! we finally got to folsom, where johnny cash's song is about and we found a winco and loaded up on some delicious foods: chocolate milk, italian subs, bananas, apples, pears, oranges, bell peppers, bagles, carrots, and i spoiled myself with chocolate covered gummi bears (i love em). we sat and enjoyed the food while we talked to passer-byers. we then biked out on green valley rd which would take us to placerville and we found a campingspot right off the side of the road. it was on a little incline, which we slid down in the night, and possibly poison oak but we steered clear. we setup tent in the dark, hung our food from a tree, and locked our bikes; right before we laid in the tent cause it was still warm out. it wasn't the best sleep since we tossed and turned all night but eventually we got some in and felt better in the morning.