Tour de Bridges 2007!
Click here for the route slip & route on G-maps.com
Bonita Library start
First bridge on Willow Road. Meredith still calls this "the scary bridge" back from when we used to ride a tandem around the golf course. Either the bridge has an address (1940) or that's when it was built...
Just past Plaza Bonita Mall, Sweetwater crossing "The" 54.
Climbing over train tracks to downtown. Yea Petco Park!
Britt Scripps Inn at Maple and 4th. It's a bed and breakfast.
Quince St. bridge. Trestle style built in 1905. More about this bridge here: http://www.hillquest.com/history/quince.html
Spruce St. bridge.
Suspension type, built in 1912.
Neighborhood kids call it "the wiggly bridge". It's web page here: http://www.hillquest.com/history/spruce.html
Lunch at Bronx pizza. The best pizza in San Diego!
Vermont St. Bridge. Originally built out of wood in 1916, it was demolisted in 1979. Rebuilt out of steel in 1995, recently closed after a guy in a pickup truck drove across it to escape the Police. More here: http://www.hillquest.com/history/vermont.html
Cabrillo Bridge. Roman Viaduct, built in 1914. Was known as the suicide bridge before Coronado bridge ...
Enter the Prado
Tricky over the shoulder shot on a pedestrian bridge
this is why it was tricky...
Some bike rides you need to stop and smell the roses...
and other select holidays... (rain or shine)
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Please come out and join us! 1st & 3rd Saturdays of every month