We had our second SCARS ride today. Since it was on the upper Santa Ana trail, I decided to ride over and take the train back.
Things went well until I got to Rialto. It started to rain. It has been cloudy all week long (we call it the "June Gloom"), but it's usually just low lying fog trapped by the mountains, not actual.
So I kept on going.
I decided to do a little tour of downtown San Berdoo.
Orange Show fairgrounds:
The Inland Empire 66'ers Stadium
an old office building:
Finally, I came to what I was looking for:
What you say McDonald's is from Chicago? well now, but in the post war period. Dick and Maurice McDonald had a virtual gold mine at 1498 E St. So much , they had four milkshake machines. A certain milkshake machine named Ray Kroc wondered what a place the middle of the California desert needed four milkshake machine for. the rest is history. Except for the McDonald's cook, Glen Bell. He really liked Mexican food (As in Taco Bell) his cooks, in turn started Del Taco. so a lot of history happened here - here's a
link I'd urge to stop if you're ever in San Bernardino
and there's an old motel across the Street:
some more old motels and neat old church:
I did eventually get to the ride start, still raining:
We did have two rider from Yuacaipa pull in and decide not to ride in the rain. Maybe they were afraid that thier Carbon fiber would delaminate....
I decided to ride sweep, that is to position myself behind the last rider. We always kid Steve Albano about his being our paparazzi. I decided to turn the tables on him
when we crossed under the 60 Freeway, the rain cleared out. We made to our eventual goal, the Santa Ana park
We encounter several different kinds of riders. I talked with hime for good fifteen minutes (the rider not the horse. Wilbur!)
We started to head back. I took of a photo of the aqueduct bridge over the Santa Ana . Doesn't look like the Roman one , though:
The railroad bridge does. This is supposedly the longest arch bridge in the western US
We stopped to decide to have lunch in Riverside or San Berdoo,to do some wrenching and to regroup:
We ran into a Animal Control officer, who had trapped a young Coyote:
We decided to have lunch in riverside, Steve and Ted needed to go home
I was going to conclude with some photos of the San bernardino station, but Rachel
offered to take me home(She also lives in Rancho Cucamonga)
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