« News From the Pack  Hardly killing time  by Mark Daniels
There was a reason to come out west in advance of tomorrow's NFL
opener between the Packers and the 49ers.     The team arrives
this evening and I'll get busier then, but most of the day
allowed me to take in the breathtaking beauty of this area.   A
late summer heat wave rolled in, brilliant sunshine baked the
coast into the upper 80's.  I hopped into my rented Mazda wagon
and went for a ride.  Leaving my San Carlos hotel, I headed
south and decided to cut across the peninsula from the bay side
to the ocean on state highway 84.   It is an incredibly winding
road uphill for the first 15 miles, cutting through vast forest
and a only a couple of small towns.  It struck me how many
bicyclists there were, by the dozens, peddaling underneath the
canopy of forests and canyons of roadway.  There were only a
couple of small towns on the trip, Woodside, and La Honda where
I came across a restaurant with a very familiar name.  No sign
of Arlo Guthrie however.