Notes:  (latest notes always appear at the top)

- Friday's Stage 6 Individual Time Trial at Solvang begins at 12:00pm PST (3pm U.S. Eastern, 21:00 CET).  Tour of California live video streaming should begin at that time on the Tour Tracker.

- "The 3 Riders of the Apocalypse Featuring Christy Craig" are in a wine bar in Paso Robles waiting for the peloton to arrive.

- First Update From the Road from "The 3 Riders of the Apocalypse Featuring Christy Craig" is here.  (Hincapie, fans who don't understand the fuss over Astana, writing with chalk, where to eat, and who to meet.)

- We recommend you open our Twitter feed in a separate window now.  If ever we have a server outage, we will update on Twitter and direct you to a live coverage page on another server.

- Today's Tour of California Stage 5 departs Visalia at 10am PST (1pm U.S. Eastern, 19:00 CET).  Live video via Tour Tracker should begin at around that time.  Live streaming video on cycling.tv is scheduled to begin at 12:30pm PST (3:30pm U.S. Eastern, 21:30 CET).  Eurosport live coverage is once again bumped to the Siberia of sports TV in Europe:  Eurosport 2.

- Welcome to our live coverage guide for the 2009 Tour of California.