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by Liz Day’s mileage : 69 Day’s climb : 5,535 ft Running total : 1,711 Some days it’s hard to believe everything that happened belonged all in the same day. Today was one of those days. We set off through vineyards around King City, moved into a US Army reservation, climbed up and over the…
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by Philip Day’s mileage : 74 Running total : 1,642 And then there were two! We had set an early alarm this morning, waking at 6am as we have a 69 mile ride to do today to get to King City – the first half of the detour around Big Sur. Cathy had just landed…
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by Liz Day’s mileage : 12 + 6 walked Running total : 1,568 Ascent : 1,032ft Saturday. Today Pelican no 3 flew east to fresh hunting grounds. It was a wrench. There were tears all the way back to Del Monte Forest. She’s been a star pelican and now it’s time to regroup and adjust…
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by Philip Day’s mileage : 74 Running total : 1,556 Ascent : 5,721ft Friday. We woke this morning to the sound of raindrops, but it turned out it was where the Del Monte Forest had collected the fog and it was dripping from the trees. The fog soon burned off, and we have the prospect…
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by Cathy Day’s mileage : 46 + 17* *Cathy went for a little 17 mile jaunt after our day’s riding Running total : 1,482 Ascent : 2,238ft Thursday. The AirBnB at Aptos last night had a really wonderful fire pit outside with a view of palm trees and a sliver of ocean, and it was…
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by Liz Day’s mileage : 40 Running total : 1,436 Ascent : 1,955ft Wednesday. I had wondered, once we reached San Francisco, if our much loved rural landscapes were behind us. The answer seems to be yes and no. Last night I inserted myself into a slightly precipitous top bunk in our dorm at Pigeon…
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by Philip Day’s mileage : 49 Running total : 1,396 Ascent : 3,091ft Tuesday. Yesterday evening we ventured out into San Francisco, walking uphill for about 15 blocks and then taking a tram further in, stopping in the Mission district where we did our own thing – Cathy finding a wrap to eat, and Liz…
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by Cathy Day’s mileage : 45 Running total : 1,347 Ascent : 2,228ft Monday. This blog is going to be on the shorter side today because we’ve just arrived in San Francisco and I’m desperate to get out and explore the city. We woke up quite early today as it’s Memorial Day here, and we…
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by Liz Day’s mileage : 39 Running total : 1,302 Ascent : 3,304ft Sunday. It wasn’t easy to leave our rest day home in Bodega Bay. The gorgeous view over the bay and the birds that live there had got right under our skin. But an amazing breakfast helped stoke us up and we tore…
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by Philip Saturday. We wondered how late we would sleep on this rest day, as our bedrooms all have plate glass windows with no coverings – but in the end we all slept very well after our long ride yesterday. We began the day with a great breakfast at The Birds Cafe, a five minute…