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by Philip And then, all of a sudden, we are home! Yesterday began with a wonderful breakfast of pancakes (known as hot cakes) in a nearby cafe which has been operating for at least 40 years with friendly staff and great food. Then we packed our bags – we had intended to put each pair…
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by Liz On our last day in America, we had the opportunity to revisit some favourite experiences. Specifically we slummed it through the San Diego dockyards again, this time to reach Walmart, and for the last time I got chatted up waiting outside the supermarket while Philip did some shopping. I’ve enjoyed these totally random…
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by Philip Day’s mileage : 31* *we’re not counting this as part of our total though as we got to the border yesterday! A slightly different post today after a rather different day! We had a gentle, late start, leaving our excellent AirBnB at 11 with a total of 14 miles to go to our…
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by Liz Day’s mileage : 67 Running total : 2,166 I intend to write a shorter blog post today because we have some celebrating to do 🙂 Good things about today: We got to the border with Mexico 😀 We saw ospreys nesting. We watched a pair of hummingbirds happily sitting in a tree for ages.…
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by Philip Day’s mileage : 31 Running total : 2,099 Today we have a planned mileage of 28, which coincided with an AirBnB with a 12 noon checkout – very unusual – so it was almost like a rest day, with no alarm set and a gentle start, and a breakfast of a stack of…
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by Liz Day’s mileage : 64 Running total : 2,068 Yesterday evening my old friend Cathy, who I met in 1987 on a hiking trip to the US, treated us to an Indian dinner along with her son and his family. It was great fun to see each other again, but also poignant without Cathy’s…
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by Philip Day’s mileage : 70 Running total : 2,004 It was an early start this morning as we have a 68 mile day and are due to be picked up from our AirBnB at 6 this evening by friends for dinner – it seems unusual to have a deadline! We were on the road…
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by Liz Our seventh and last rest day of the trip has been spent beside the sand dunes of Oxnard. They are ten steps from our bedroom door and just over the top of them we can see the sea, from an unusual vantage point as it’s at eye level – the house is a…
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by Philip Day’s mileage : 63 Running total : 1,934 We woke early with the prospect of a long ride, and were greeted by hummingbirds seemingly inspecting us through the large windows. A breakfast of gorgeous oranges from our hosts’ trees and porridge, followed by a lovely chat with Jim and Eileen and we headed…
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by Liz Day’s mileage : 41 Running total : 1,871 How is it possible to stay in a small town like Lompoc with 2,500 other visiting cyclists and not see a single one? They left as we were getting up and they ride faster than we do – that’s the only half decent explanation. The…