(A) Notable Whole Earth Festival organizers lend their firepower to our event!
(B) How The Solano, the biggest ferry in the world, put Davis on the map
(C) Davis Enterprise Story on May 27 Davis NBG Fest at Central Park & Martin Krieg
(D) Davis accordionist, Page Marie, to fill in the gaps!!
(E) Napa Councillor Juliana Inman who received me in 2009 will receive Dr. Tom this year
(F) Proposed Napa NBG  Day Proclamation language
(G) Davis Swim and Fitness to be at Festival !!
(H) Who will use their homeowner’s  to insure our event?
(I) Face Painter Patty Dash to be at Fest
(J) NBG Storyboard bullet points
(K) Bay Bridge News, re: Treasure Isl to Oakland City Hall ride 
(L) Difference between NBG and US Bike Route System 
(M) Martin Krieg and his second try try at life by Edward Peterson
(N) Mini tour of Winters, CA
(O) New Newsletter index – to see all the previous NBG Fest newsletters 

 

(A) Yousef Ali, a lifelong Davis resident and Chris Meyers and I met on Friday. We formalized the details that Yousef and I have been tossing about  when we see each other at Grocery Outlet (its WIKI), one of the main sponsors of of our upcoming event. Recently graduated,  Yousef is taking some time off from his career path by working at this fun food store because so many of his happy friends do too. Toward that end, there is always laughter as well as smiling customers every time I am there.

Yousef was the lead organizer for last year’s three-day Whole Earth Festival that happens this upcoming weekend and attracts 30,000 people!!  In it’s 48th year, it is filled with art vendors, music/dance performances, and educational workshops. And the year before, Chris Meyers was the man in charge. Chris now works as a delegate at the California Democratic State Central Committee.

Talk about firepower and being well connected, these two guys are all over it. Indeed things will super charge to a higher, even more exciting level!!

(B) In 1879, The Solano, a 424-foot long ferry built in Oakland, began moving entire passenger trains from Benicia to Port Costa on the northern tip of the San Francisco Bay. And when it did, it rerouted the transcontinental railroad from Altamont Pass near Livermore to the Suisun Bay cities that trickled down from Sacramento such as Davis, Dixon, Martinez and Richmond on their way to Oakland.

Ten years before, Thomas Stevens would have missed Davis had he ridden his bike across America then. And yet today, Benicia and Port Costa are almost forgotten towns that today’s Transamerica travelers, the cars and trucks on I-80, miss because the interstate  they use is 10-15 miles away. This while Davis remains a noteworthy player on the coast to coast travelways as it also keeps its link to the first TansAmerica car road, the Lincoln Hwy, alive as I’ve shown you in previous newsletters.

 

(C) Bruce Gallaudet, the man who shapes the City of Davis with his prolific writing about it, sees the big picture of the National Bicycle Greenway as it relates to Davis. He also understands why I ride the Eagle here to promote the NBG. If you don’t want to strain your eyes trying to read what this true Davis Giant wrote, you can read it easily HERE.

 

(D) Sage Marie will keep Second Davis NBG Fest attendees entertained during breaks on the stage! She was groomed by another locally renowned fun accordionist named Jared Johnson who is now playing out of the area. Play this short video HERE

 

(E) Juliana Inman, the City of Napa councillor (standing next to me below) who received our 2009 Mayors’ Ride when I rode the Eagle Bicycle to Salt Lake City per http://bikeroute.com/NationalMayorsRide2009 has agreed to receive Tom Ayres when he comes in from Oakland with Mayor Libby Schaaf‘s 2017 NBG Proclamation on Friday May 26.

(F) Juliana and I are working on the Whereas language for the Napa proclamation. Here is the gist of where it is headed:

WHEREAS: In following the newly rerouted transcontinental railroad, in 1884, Thomas Stevens did not visit the City of Napa, but in 2017, he would not have missed it

WHEREAS: the National Bicycle Greenway has determined that the best way to reach Davis, the Bike Capital of America, on their route to Washington DC, is through Napa,

WHEREAS: The city of Napa  has ___miles of bike lanes, has ___bike racks, has great access to the wineries the Napa Valley,

WHEREAS: thousands of cyclists pass through Napa every day in the summer months to enjoy our fabulous restaurants and other attractions

I asked her if she could get her husband, a cyclist, and/or the Eagle Cycling Club to fill in the blanks on the 3rd whereas section. And add any thing about Napa where bikes are concerned that make it attractive…

 

(G) Davis Swim and Fitness,  a health club that more and more serious  lifters seem to be joining almost on a daily basis here recently  is going to be exhibiting at our festival. Toward that end, I have come to find out that Tammy Ten Broeck, the owner and a lifter herself, lives next to Mark Bell (WIKI), the owner of Super Training Gym and a well known powerlifter with numbers like a 1,025 lb  squat, a 832 lb bench press, and a 738 lb deadlift. Explains why all of the weights and equipment at Tammy’s labor of love are all top notch!

While moving iron is my interest, their swimming pool, aerobics classes and machines as well as their cross-fit programs all seem very popular too! I’ve been in gyms for many years, all across the country, even in Ireland and all over the SF Bay Area. And my experience is showing me this is easily one of the best such facilities I’ve ever had the privilege of being a part of!

(H) The insurance we thought we had that  the city requires  for our event fell through. Might there be anyone out there willing to put our one day event on their homeowner’s policy? We are hearing this is not uncommon and the cost is usually $20 to 50 to do so. Can anyone help? We need this this week as the City needs time to scrutinize what we come up with…

 

 

 

(I) Patty Dash will be at our NBG Fest to paint faces

 

 

 

(J) Edited Repost

I just resurrected the storyboard that went in to storage when I went to Ireland for five years to raise my little boy. A handsome piece, we used it to display important National Bicycle Greenway documents which include photos from our annual Mayors’ Rides, press about our organization that I have been able to get by using my story as well as select Proclamations in support of the NBG that we have been able to collect from big city mayors all on our route from San Francisco to Washington DC.

The storyboard is three 4′ x 4′ attached panels that fold down to one. Covered in green felt, the edges are protected by lightweight aluminum trim 

Is there anyone out there who I can give this to along with current pictures, newspaper articles and Proclamations that would be able to take it on as a project to get it current? I would like to be able to have this for her booth at  The Whole Earth Festival and at our Davis NBG Fest.  

Here is what I will supply you with:
NBG  logo in center (OK as is )
Proclamtion (2)
Route
Mayors’ Ride collage
NBG Scouting Missions
Mayors’ Ride receptions
Why Festival
NBG description
How actualize  c/o crowdfunding 

They will come to you  as links that need to be sized accordingly as well as laminated so they do not get dog eared.

 

(L) The USBRS is a great system indeed! Our route is different in that it celebrates the major cities we have identified HERE  that connect San Francisco with Washington DC. Our 20 Anchor cities will all be fleshed out in a way (the purpose of our crowdfunding campaign next Fall/Winter) that turns them into magnets for bike riders wanting to explore all the places to ride, eat, sleep, shop and recreate in them. Our route can and will be monetized such that the various business communities along the way will help us improve the bicycle infrastructure that reaches their front door, etc, etc……

(M) Edward Peterson, a UC Davis student, interviewed me as a class assignment. I’ve been the subject of such Q&A from all over the world and must say his result was more accurate than most:

Martin Krieg and his second try try at life by Edward Peterson

(N) When Tom Ayres arrives at the Putah Creek Cafe, in Winters, from Napa with proclamations from Napa councillor, Juliana Inman and Oakland Mayor, Libby Schaaf, he’ll be arriving to a small town rich in history. Before Kelly Macy and Eric Warp then bring him to our Second Davis NBG Fest before you join him, per THIS LINK, you can tour Winters. Here is a tiny sampling of what you will see if you choose to wander for a few block away from the cafe on 1 Main Street.

Here is Winters City Hall. 

City Hall looks out on this:

while a couple blocks away is this beautiful church: