Re: Bike to Anywhere Day Redux

On 5/15/2025 8:25 PM, sms wrote:

Bike to Anywhere Day Redux
 

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 Through Sunnyvale to the Heatherstone Bridge <https://imgur.com/qnap3PM  > in Mountain View that goes over CA-85. Embarrassingly, we were passed by about six elementary school students on their smallish bikes, riding up the steep hairpin bridge approaches, on the way to school.
 Continued onto the Stevens Creek Trail, with no grade crossings, all the way to San Francisco Bay. By the new, strange, Google Buildings <https://www.paloaltoonline.com/wp-content/ uploads/2022/05/98844_original.jpg> Google hosted an Energizer Station with ham & cheese croissants, cookies, smoothies, Park Tool patch kits (two kinds), and tire levers. I told them that I thought that they would be giving out Google Pixel 9 Pro phones, but no such luck. A blimp was landing at Moffett Field which was cool <https://i.imgur.com/vSGkJSu.png>.

Interestingly, I was on some of those same roads and trails this week.
That wasn't a blimp. It was LTA Research's Pathfinder 1 rigid airship. (A blimp is limp.) It's the largest flying machine currently existing. I watched one flight from the northern end of the Stevens Creek preserve, near GooglePlex. I've got contacts at LTA, and was given a facility tour last Friday.
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