Napa Valley Rydables: new way to see Napa's history

Throughout the morning, we have been taking you live up to Napa, where a mother and daughter are putting a fun spin on sightseeing. I guess so. Their rideable tours combine a ride through downtown with stories about the city's history and its landmarks. Let's go back to Brian. Oh, there he is. Hi, guys. How you doing? We miss you. Uh, Karen behind me. She's been so sweet touring us around Napa and do me a favor. Karen, hop off. I know it's easy for you. You're riding side saddle. Let's do a little Q and A and let's talk a bit about some of the history as far as Napa is concerned. You've mentioned so many things. Let's start with what you'd like and maybe where we are right now. Okay, well, we are located in Veterans Memorial Park, downtown in Napa. Right across the way from us, across the river over there is the historic Borio building. That's the second oldest commercial building in Napa. It was built in the 1800s. Behind us, we have downtown Joe's. That is a local family owned historic brewery and restaurants. We've got some of our beautiful buildings lining Main Street across the way. You're gonna see the Wells Fargo building. We've got the Pagani building over here, now known as Quilt and Co. But this is some of the first buildings that were built after the town was founded here in Napa. Gotcha. So come a little closer. Stay close to my mic so we can make sure we hear you clearly. So out of everything you listed, what do you think is the biggest draw for folks that come to the biggest draw out of the things you listed or something else that you might not have listed and don't include bottle rock food and wine. Everybody comes to Napa for food and wine in downtown. You can find tons of tasting rooms, restaurants. We've got a ton of restaurants right around us. We've got Wilfred's Tiki Bar right behind you. That's a delicious island style restaurant. Very unique spot in Napa. We've got the downtown Joe's restaurant brewery. Of course, that's a great spot. Napkins across the street. Um, food and wine, though. We've got a lot of great food and wine in downtown. Now talk. You were talking about some sort of bypass or some sort of Oh, hey, we've got a new friend. Tell me a bit about that. So right across the way, we've got the Napa Oxbow Commons. The Napa Oxbow Commons is part of Napa's 100 year flood project. Historically in Napa, we got a lot of rain. We do a lot of flooding. So what Napa did was they built this bypass right across the way the river to rise from one side flow through there. They close the flood gates on either side of the road back over there, and the water flows through and recedes on the other side. Since they built that, it has saved downtown Napa buildings and buildings and houses, neighborhoods from any kind of flooding. It's been a huge asset to downtown. You're in huge assets of downtown. Okay, we have this beautiful random woman with her gorgeous dog popping up. So I figured why not ask you a question? So you live here locally, right? Tell me what is one of your favorite things historically here in Napa? What's something that you would like to plug, if you will? Oh, my gosh. Well, I won't say historically, but seeing the rideables around town every day is so much fun. They always say hi to Frankie and all the tourists. Uh, you know, as you can see, he's he's kind of cute, kind of kind of cute. So the tourists do tend to tend to stop us. And so we call him kind of the Frankie. Frankie is kind of the Napa dog. Really? You are so friendly. Look at this. So So this is crazy. So I'm hanging out with a celebrity here. Gotcha. What is your name? I'm Nancy. Nancy. All right. I appreciate you letting us chat you up, Nancy. Sure. Yeah. Great to see you guys. Yeah. You know, there's nothing like living in Napa. Are you? Are you originally from here? No, I'm from New Jersey. Gotcha. Okay. You're gonna be covered in fur. I love fur. I'm all about it. All right, we're gonna go ahead and get back on these rideables. A big thanks to Jersey here and a big thanks to you. Obviously, we do this for the viewers at home. Come into Napa. Come check out Karen and Nancy and come ride a rideable. They're a lot of fun. I look guys, we're bringing that back to KTVU. That's gonna be a long ride, but a colorful one. Yeah, look at him go. That's pretty fun. It looks like an instagrammable moment. Oh, my gosh, we got a handlebar cam. Handlebar cam. There we go. Very nice. All right. Be careful, Brian. You don't have a helmet on or anything, so watch where you're going. Oh, boy. You got it, Pam. Don't run into any walls. What vineyard is he off to? Yeah, right. Yeah, you might be pulled over for drinking and driving in wine country on one of those. People on lawn mowers have been pulled over for DUI, so you gotta be careful. But Brian looks like a happy man. All right.