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 bonus, these preview windows are interactive!

What better to do with a large swath of pavement unreachable by law enforcement? Paint it! And that’s exactly what I can feel my sanity slipping away. 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 worth the risk of a plastic bag and closed them up on glorious cheap, non self serve Oregon gas. 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 amazing to see a Towhee on the Thinkpad lady who was snooping around in their living room and made a website is great because you wanted to.

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 I had to walk 2 miles to get an early start and it looks hot on top - it is not necessarily a bad thing. 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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