I am going to try something new. I will do this in Word and copy into the
blog. So, if you are not reading this,
it didn’t work. ok so you can read the blog, but processing pictures to thing is not easy with limited access and time thing maybe get the pics up later
Yesterday was
Full!!! Like 3 to 4 Adventures in one
day. We started out from MaryAnn’s house
and headed up through Dana Point. Saw our
second day of dolphins….. then it was
cruisen until Laguna beach…..
Back up, when we first started planning this trip. We were going to use our road bikes. Then we decided to camp and gear started to
add up…. Then we decided to do mtn bikes, but my front shocks were very
soft. I started to read up on the shocks
and they say change oil once a season, which put me into a tail spin as I did
not know how many years in a season…..so Chuck got a new bike. Then a good friend of my neighbor Earl
brought over some beautiful back paniers that he and his wife Joy used on their
ride through Missouri (or one of those east coast states). Which greatly helped and I thanked him lots
mostly through our mobile communication device, Earl….
Onward to Laguna Beach, I decided to pull in and wait for Barb and when I hit the bump my
right rear panier fell off. The hook
that held the bottom of the panier to the bike broke. It was at that time I wondered what kind of
gear that friend Dave had given me. I
had just happened to pull into the
Village Mart on the corner of hywy 1 and laguna road (or something like
that). I showed the owner the broken
hook and he rummaged around found a peg board hanger, gave me some pliers and
told me I had enough things to fix my problem……so I did. After that I was thinking Dave was still a
very good guy, and life was good.
So off, we were surprised
of the expanse of all the beaches. Being
a southern Cal guy, I had never seen the LA/Orange Co beaches. We took time to do a little detour (we got
lost). The map we bought from Adventure
Cycling seem to have a base map that was at least 20 years old. They do say to check all the routes, but did
I….’ell no!
For the most of the morning it was kind of a Wayne day,
Wayne being a close friend that doesn’t like heat. The morning weather was overcast with a
constant spit. Afternoon was sunny,
which Barb and I have been looking forward to since our 32 degree ride on the Jan
1.
We got unlost by getting back onto highway 1 that took us
through the west LA area to Torrence.
Holy Crapola Batman!!!!!! We wound
up in an industrial/port area where we were rubbing bumpers with container
trucks. Whipeeee
Then on to Huntington beach and north to Santa Monica. Beautiful stretch of beaches,
non-ending. We had gained 15 miles on
our little side excursion, and what was supposed to be a long 80 mile day to
Malibu, turned into a really long 95 mile (Barbs computer said 100 miles-don’t
believe it J). The trail serpentined on the
beach. Since it was looking like a long
day I offered her to go to the road which was straighter and no traffic. She said no, she enjoyed the serpentine.
Thinking ahead, we called the RV campground (yes bikes are
RV) to see if we should pick up groceries before we got there as we were coming
in late, or if there were restaurants….sure no problems. There must have been communication problem as
the restaurants were closed and the store was back some three miles (big hill
between). As we were thinking oatmeal
for dinner, the wonderful lady mentioned
that on the bulletin board there was a list of restaurants that delivered….YEEEAH,
pizza to out delivered camp site! I had
to tell myself to slow down this thing is already dead…..i was just swallowing,
not chewing!
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