Weekend Update

Nothing really deserving of a blog post by itself, but a couple of interesting things happened over the weekend.

Firstly, on Saturday, I came across another snake on the trail when I was mountain biking - this time in the morning, but the weather was already warm. This is a California King snake - harmless to us human types, but it shook its tail at me trying to spook me - it failed as this snake looks (and sounds) nothing like a rattler.

I came across it on one of the funner pieces of downhill single track - thankfully on one of the flatter bits, so I was able to stop before I ran it over.

Later in the ride, when I'm flying down a steep downhill trail, I realize there's another snake (a gopher) trying to get off the trail - I had no chance to stop for this one, so I did my best to hop over it as I passed - I'm pretty sure I didn't hit it.

Then this morning, as the good weather continued, I realized there's a cruise ship docked in the harbor.

However, I later learned that this isn't your traditional cruise ship - it's an ownership ship - the folks own their cabins and travel around the world (some full time, some here and there renting their properly out the rest of the time) - it's here for three days by the looks of it.

An interesting concept - looks like they were in Mexico, are slowly making their way up the coast to Alaska and will eventually end up in Hong Kong by year's end.

You can read all about it at their web site.

That's pretty much it for the weekend update - we had a great weekend's worth of weather (especially for June - typically the foggiest month of the year) and I took maximum advantage of it, mountain biking and vegging at the beach on Saturday and cycling on the road followed by motorcycling on Sunday.

The only downside - no Condors on the motorcycle ride!