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  Bike trail from MV to Palo Alto Airport “When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” ~ Sherlock Holmes author, Arthur Conan Doyle, Scientific American, 1896 On an overcast day in January, I decided to explore the trail to the Palo Alto Airport on bike. The 8.7 mile route : Start biking from Mountain View toward Shoreline Park along Steven's Creek Trail, continue on past Shoreline Park, then on to the Byxbee Marshfront Trail to Palo Alto Regional Water Control Plant. Bike past the Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Interpretive Center, along the NW fence of the Palo Alto airport (PAO) runway to the end. Bird watching: Winter is a great time to spot migratory birds in the 2000 acre Baylands Nature Preserve, home to the endangered clapper rail and salt marsh harvest mouse. The Duck Pond was teeming wi

 Biking along the Baylands Nature Trail Life is like riding a bike, you gotta stay balanced and keep moving to reach your destination ~  Albert Einstein (edited) I dusted off my dirt bike and hit the open trails along Shoreline Park - a 16.7 mile stretch mostly along the SW edge of San Francisco Bay waterfront. The route incorporates both paved and unpaved paths that skirt a series of undisturbed tidal marshland or sloughs called the Baylands, stretching from Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve to the North all the way to Shoreline Park further south and extending into downtown Mountain View via Steven's Creek Trail. When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle I highly recommend taking along a good pair of binoculars and stopping often to admire the breathtaking scenery.  Ch