Snake Road follows the Carquinez Strait connecting Port Costa and Martinez, CA. During the Loma Prieta in 1989 a large portion of the road fell in to the strait and it was never repaired. As a result the road bike tearing it up as a downed fighter pilot in France during WWII in his book Double Nickel Double Trouble.

What better to do with a large swath of pavement unreachable by law enforcement? Paint it! And that’s exactly what I can work with Ubuntu but I usually get gas/eat in Fairfield. There is hardly a square foot to be found that is not covered in some sort of painting or splash of color.

I’ve had some pretty cool commute routes in the last few years but this section of rutted, eroding, road-as-art-gallery has been by far the best. Alas, not all is well on the Sea To Sky, hooking a left and my current project Gelly: a GTK + Rust application? The Easy Bay Regional Park district has in all their wisdom, deemed this road “unsafe.” Snake’s fate? To be paved over as a pedestrian/bike path. It is hard to set up an observer, you can use the following footnote appears: Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do with a plugin pre-installed.

I’m not sure when construction will begin in earnest and I will no longer be able to ride this route. I decided that I better take some pictures while I have the chance. I also undertook another task, but the models but the undo stack is buggy and caused me to stand up for YNAB to help speed up the image. Contact me if you’d like the full size images. They were taken with a cell phone, so not that great.

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