Day 2 Folsom – Kyburz

The first Saturday of our tour could have a lot of headlines. “Miles travelled is not the same as miles closer to New York”, “American River read yesterday’s post” and “Altitude an asset you can quickly lose” just to mention a few. Everything went OK until noon after which things got a little out of hand. It is late here in Kyburz and I need to collect a few facts to make the full afternoon account, so Day 2 will be broken into a short morning presented here and a long afternoon evening presented Sunday.

It’s hot and music on the road

We got out of Folsom half past eight after a breakfast outside Walmart. Bike paths took us out of Folsom and then it started to go up, up and up towards South Lake Tahoe. Second round of breakfast was consumed at Mel’s Diner in Placerville, two high stacks of pancakes with plenty of syrup. We needed to cool down after a hot morning. It is officially a heatwave. Neither of us have listened to music or podcasts yet. Too much is happening, traffic is dense, so we will save that for later. A soundtrack for day 2, however, could be Tom Petty’s Into the Great Wide Open, which we then listened to on the rock-ola jukebox which was at every table:

Apparently Mel’s Diner is iconic in this part of the country since it was the location for a tv-series and used as location in several movies.

Stay tuned, tomorrow will be a little more interesting and explain why we suddenly ended up in Kyburz.