Bike to Work (Mountain view to Menlo park) 11+ miles

I have been planning on doing the bike to work ever since our office moved from Mountain View to Menlo park. I talked to few folks from work to get an idea on the route options and finally got one good route from Matt Foist (who commutes by bike to work whenever he misses caltrain). He offered to ride with me one day to show me the route. Finally, we did it on wednesday 5/27/09. I joined him at Rengstroff/Central. It took us total 70 minutes to cover closer to 11 miles. Left the bike at work that night and next day, we rode back on the same route to home. It was very fun, relaxing and enjoyable ride. Thanks Matt for giving me company and I didn't feel any boredom or tiredness during the ride.

I drew the route using a great site bikely. It has nice to drawing tools and calculates the distance for every point. If you haven't tried it yet, check it out at www.bikely.com.

Here is the route textual description:
Started from Ferguson/Central -> Ride until Santonio Road -> Pass Sanantonio -> Take the first right turn -> get through that street, take left on MacKay Dr -> At the end of that street, right right at Shasta Dr -> it curves & become Nelson Dr -> Left At creekside -> Pass the creek -> Get on to Duncan Plaza -> It touches Charleston -> Cross that st, get on to Carlson Ct -> take right at Redwood Circle -> Ride on that a bit to see Bryant St -> Get on Bryant St, ride about 5 miles. it goes via palo alto neighborhood, pretty safe street -> Cross main streets like Oregon Express way, Embarcadero Rd, University Ave -> It dead ends at Palo Alto Ave -> On right, there is a bridge, get on that bridge to cross the creek -> Get on to Willow Road -> Take right at willow -> Left at Middlefield Road -> Right at Ringwood Ave -> Go all the way to end of ringwood ave -> See overpass to cross 101 -> Cross that to get on to market pl -> left at market pl -> at deadend, right at Del Norte Ave -> Left at Terminal Ave -> Cross the tracks to get to the campus..

Link and Picture:
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Whisman-to-Menlo-Park-Intuit-Campus