Vanessa Hua April 15, 2021Updated: April 15, 2021, 11:12 am The view from Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in Union City. Photo: Vanessa Hua, The Chronicle As I biked across the wide expanse of blacktop at the former naval air station in Alameda, I couldn’t stop smiling. I felt like a kid again, pedaling hard. Even better: It was mostly empty. “This sort of feels like … Burning Man?” I said to friends, biking with me a few feet away. At the survivalist arts festival in the Nevada desert, bicycles are the primary mode of transportation as one crosses the haunting desolation from party to party.