Between Sacramento and Winters this ride  is identical with the ride connecting Sacramento with San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge.  After navigating through Sacramento and West Sacramento, you will cross the Yolo Causeway on your way to Davis and Winters. 

Between Davis and Winters a variety of produce (tomatoes, sunflowers, strawberries, corn) may be seen, depending upon season and year.

After Rest Stop #1 in Winters, you will bike along Putah Creek Road, which I find notable for its lovely views of Lake Solano.

You next will turn left onto Pleasants Valley Road.  I enjoy this road every time I bike it:  quiet, rural, picturesque, with hills which you may enjoy visualizing but don't need to struggle up or down.

Leaving Pleasants Valley Road you soon will arrive in Fairfield, where Rest Stop #2 awaits you.  Personally, I carry my own food and make Mangels Blvd (not Waterman Blvd)  my second stop. 

When you get to Rockville Road you actually will be riding old Route US 40, which prior to building I-80, was the main transcontinental highway at our latitude (SF to NYC).

On this route Fairfield is separated into two portions.  You initially will enter Fairfield on Hilborn Road & Waterman Blvd.  You then leave it for some rural riding (Abernathy & Rockville Roads) and enter the town a second time along Mangels Blvd and Green Valley Road.

Next take Highway 12 to Highway 29.  I regard Hwy 12 as the most risky portion of the day:  very heavy traffic, somewhat narrow, and lacking a shoulder in some sections.  Hwy 29 is industrial, but it has a good shoulder and road surface.  When you descend Florida Street in Vallejo you will get a splendid view of the Napa River (Mare Island Strait) and distant San Pablo Bay.

Lastly, take Mare Island Way to the Vallejo Ferry Terminal, 289 Mare Island Way (at Georgia Street), and enjoy your well deserved rest on the ferry journey to/from San Francisco.

A bike rack (capacity ten bicycles) is present in the back of the ferry.