For the past week shawn and i have been on a bike tour. Our initial goal was to scope out the Sacramento river Delta to see if there was a good place to put the castle for the rough weather winter. We packed out tent and instruments into our bicycle trailer and headed to the delta. We went north through San Rafael, Novato, east to Vallejo, and to Benecia. from there we got a little tired and saw the fast moving Carquinez strait, and decided we didnt want to bring the castle up this way! we also found the 150lb trailer to be quite tiring. we rerouted our trip to go up to Fairfield, then over a mountain to Napa and west to Sonoma and Petaluma, the south back home! a week later we are back home, with suntans and strong muscles! thank you to everyone we met and helped us for a place to sleep or information!

pictures!