Wonderful ride this morning. I was able to take a 19 mile detour by heading south to Freeport, across the Sacramento River, and back north on the levee road on the Yolo County side. Calm and cool with views of Mt. Diablo rising out of the pastures and vineyards of the Delta.

When I arrived in the traffic of rapidly sprawling West Sacramento, I felt genuinely sorry for the motorists trapped in their steel and glass boxes, inching along from redlight to redlight. With one exception: the woman on the celeste green Vespa (Ciao, Bella!).