Some weekends are good. Some are great. This was a great one. Up early Saturday morning and on the road at 6am. Bikes and bags packed in the back of Steve’s van. Onward to “Castle de Kahuna” in El Dorado Hills. Pulled into Mike’s around 8:30. Mike was already putting his bike on the rack. We got dressed, loaded up and and headed to old town Folsom. Parked, unloaded and hit the trail. I’ve mentioned before how much fun this ride is.
Good mix of paved trail and single track along the American river. Beautiful morning for a ride. And what a ride it is! Really gets your adrenaline going as your blasting over river rock, around tree stumps, up and down, over and around the single track trail that hugs the river. We actually went 11 miles downstream before we took a break along the river. Vandenbusch was ready to do a river crossing but thought better of it after the first few feet. The ride back was just as fun. I took a few videos of Mike and Steve working the trail. Check it out on the jimsjoint channel over at YouTube. All in all a great ride.
After the ride it was off to a local watering hole in old town for a well deserved cold one. Ahhhhhh. Then back to Camello’s where we lounged by the pool, had a great lunch, watched a little 3rd round US Open coverage, and even took a little afternoon nap. Total kick back afternoon. 
Later in the day we even got back on the bikes and cruised over to the town square. They were hosting a wine tasting so there were tons of “beautiful people” sipping wine and schmoozing, while enjoying live music on a most beautiful California evening. Very cool. The boys settled onto bar stools at the corner bistro, had a cocktail (or four), and watched the world go by. Good friends. Good times. The sun was 
setting. We didn’t want to get stuck riding the bikes back in the dark so we high-tailed it back to the castle for dinner. Dinner at Castle de Kahuna is the complete dining experience. Rock and Roll music fills the air. The Kahuna created some melon ball margaritas that were lip smack’in good. Fresh veggies, hand picked out of the garden by the Kahuna himself, then sliced “drunken Samari” style. The guy can cut meat while balancing a pineapple on his head! The grill was hot and on went the steaks and all the fixins. I think we ended up eating a great meal around 9:30 that night. FANTASTIC food. The fun went onto the late hours of the night and into the wee hours of the morning. We finished off the night with a little Sinatra on the IPOD. Can it get any better? An end to a long, great, day.
Up (not too) bright and (not too) early for a little breakfast and we were on the road for home by 10am and pulling into Fremont right around noon. A whirlwind and blur of great times with great buddies. Can’t wait til next time.
