Today we rode east from Hayward up the right side of the map on Redwood road, at Skyline we turned north to Hwy 13 and 24 up to the Oakland bay Bridge. here we had to lane split about 4 miles of traffic to get to the bridge, this was my first experience lane splitting and I found it nerve racking. After crossing we rode past Fisherman's wharf under the Golden gate and then back over to Sausalito. then we rode out to the coast and back to the bridge. along this last stretch we came across lots of old coastal defense sites some dating back to the 1800's. after we stopped to have dinner with some friends on Fisherman's Wharf we headed back to Hayward, as we traveled down the 101 we ran in to gridlock almost as soon as we got on the freeway, we ended up having to lane split over 30 miles of traffic including all the way across the San Mateo bridge.