Road works, the perils of planning your own route and pears. Lots of pears

So the day started with a dark and foggy introduction to american motorways but we were going quick and were on the right track. Disaster struck just outside rio vista first when we managed to wander into ten miles of roadworks (cue traffic chaos and the supervisor if the site driving us a mile or so up the road to safety) and then ben went and got our first puncture barely thirty miles in! Anyway fixed that, had some banter with some locals and cycled on to walnut grove thru some awesome scenery along sacremto river. Waltzed into walnut grove feeling confident only to double check the directions and have some hat wearing stranger to send us fifteen miles in the wrong way. After realising our mistake we predictsbly moaned and swore s lot and came up with a plantk continue the wrong way all the way to sacremento, find highway fifty and then cycle out for a few hours to try make up some if the distance lost due to the capped idiot. Our own fault I suppose as we disobeyed rule one......never trust strangers. Anyway in a subway now as it's pretty toasty outside.