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The ride from El Capitan to Santa Barbara was a short one that allowed me to get proper rest before the last day of my tour. I stayed in a motel in Carpinteria just outside of Santa Barbara. The small town gave me the feeling of having arrived in Southern California. The palm trees along the beach boulevards
My nose was running and my left eye felt like it had sand in it when I woke up. I just wanted to get on the road and hoped this would make me feel better soon. After Orcutt the PCH became a freeway. With the one exception in Nevada, a was able to avoid the freeways on the tour. I thought that it was
I originally planned to do some wine tasting in Cambria and Paso Robles, both famous for their vineyards, but then rejected the idea, since this wouldn’t be much fun to do this alone on a bike. Therefore I stayed close to the coast while driving toward Pismo Beach and made a longer stop in Morro Bay
I started a bit later, as usual, today since it would be a short ride to Cambria today which would allow me to catch up with things back home. After the exciting ride on the cliffs, the road gradually flattened and became even with the ocean. I made only a few stops along the beach, watched the sea elephants
The route from Monterey to Big Sur was one I was looking forward to from the point I decided to take a northern route across the states towards LA. It's my favorite car drive, and I was curious if I can enjoy it equally on a bike despite the traffic and a missing bike path. - And I did. The whole ride
The fog stayed with me for the first couple of hours of the day. I took it easy on the 70km stretch around Monterey bay and was planning to get some work done and spend some time in Monterey. When I reached the city, the sky had opened up and I enjoyed some time on the ocean front and cannery road, before
So far I spend 6500km on the road. That's 200km more than I spend on the plane from Zurich to New York. It feels a bit unreal and at the same time, I feel like it was just yesterday when I was standing at JFK, unsure how to exit the airport by bike.
After a longer break in SF, it wasn’t easy to get back
I started with pain again in the morning. My left eye was difficult to keep open. Anyhow after a few miles, the pain would become less and eventually leave my consciousness.
The ride to Oxnard was mainly along the coastline on proper bike paths. I passed strawberry fields, which reminded me of the short
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