Last day! We are excited to reach our destination and feel accomplished doing so but we are not excited by the end of this trip. We loved the bike ride and are sad to see it end. We are feeling etremely fortunate that this is not the end of the adventure, not even close!
Clay surfed in the morning at trestles, a well know and crowded break within walking distance from our campground.
We left ourselves with a short 20 mile ride today so we could finish with ease as we cruised into San Diego. We ended up with a 35 mile day. The miles were easy, especially the stupid highway miles.
The bike route here goes through camp Pendleton. Occasionally the camp closes the route because of generic "military operations". Camp Pendleton will be open then said, you'll have no problem they said.
We got out of camp late for our easy ride to Oceanside and bike 7 miles to camp Pendleton alongside a nuclear power plant. After the guards told us the bike path to the camp is closed till Saturday, I cried a little, then biked back 7 miles to get on the on ramp to interstate 5. I hate riding on the highway. It's normally illegal to bike on the highway here but since the bike path was closed, they made an exception. We put on our neon shirts, put our heads down and got through it, and of course realize in the end, it's never as bad as I think it's going to be.
We were not exactly welcomed with open arms as we wheeled our bikes into the marriott lobby, smelling and looking fine. We will be here through the weekend for zack and Alyssa's wedding somehow finding time to prepare for the next leg of the trip. PCT starts Tuesday!
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| San Diego! |
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| Military operations in progress |
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| Early morning coffee walk at San Clemente |
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