One of my favorite things on the way home from UC Davis during college was taking the Marshview Road exit from 680 for the more lively and beautiful drive along Lopes Road — a winding, hilly road that parallels 680 and snakes along the rolling hills and farmlands you tend to miss at freeway speeds. I had to go to Davis for work today, and was lucky to have time to take this more leisurely and fun way home.

I just learned today that it's called Lopes road. I'd never looked at it on a map before, and since I used to always take the Marshview exit — and there is indeed a view of the marshlands to the east of the freeway — Dave (who often rode with me back from Davis and was also fond of the detour) and I thought of the whole drive as "Marshview Road". ...And that's how I'm going to continue to think of it.