Beers & bikes will save the world! (part 2)

So there we were cycling into Santa Rosa to meet Ken - a nice man with a banana we had met roadside in Southern Oregon. He warned us it was a big hill up his driveway, but we didn't realize his princely abode resided atop a hill overlooking all of Russian River valley! Even better, he had a huge garden where we picked fruits of all kinds. We were very kindly put up in the guest house Murphy bed - a first for both of us.

The next day was time for Russian River! To me, this was the holy grail of breweries - the one I'd been looking forward to the whole trip. The beer was delicious. Unfortunately this was marred by the sub par service. It wasn't busy or understaffed and yet the very nice man who even bought us a round had a difficult time ordering. Strongly worded letter in progress.

From Russian River it was on to Fairfax, birthplace of the mountain bike and home of Biketoberfest. We spent some time here exploring and were able to stay with Sarah and her son Ari who we hooked up with from couchsurfing. They were very gracious hosts. Saturday we volunteered at biketoberfest where we met some of our cycling heroes and drank many a delicious beer. This was the end of our brewery tour - it was finally time to keep heading southward into San Francisco!

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