Distance Travelled:
Money Spent: $5 for split pea soup and $1.50 for beer (actually 3 beers)
Time cycling: 2 hours 20 min
Total Distance Traveled: 2642 km
I didn’t pay for camping for last night and the ranger was there when I woke up to collect the money, but not from me, two other cyclists had arrived late last night who had to pay but somehow the ranger never asked me… well that’s cool.
It was a beautiful day after the sun ate through the morning mist, the two other guys were Bob and Jesse, Bob an older guy who had cycled a lot in his lifetime and Jesse who was travelling with him was on his first tour on his bike starting in his home town of Half Moon Bay. They were both easy going and good for chit chat.
I would have cycled with them but they told me they took their time on the road so I headed off to hit a new top speed of 43.6 Mph (70km/h) on a not-so-steep downhill section of the highway with the wind helping me along.
The route I took today was an alternative from the coastal highway that I read in the ‘Cycling the Pacific Coast’ book that Jay had taking me through Highway 246 and 154 and one campground on this route offered a swimming pool, so headed for that. The others were headed in this direction too so we planned to meet at the campsite.
It got hotter the further I headed inland but was bare able even when sweat was pouring into my eyes, my cyclo-computer was playing up a little bit because of it being in direct sunlight making it read 88.8 kM/hr and the odometer reading 888888. yes, this thing was cheap but after it cooled off a little bit it was fine.
Reading the book I just mentioned it said there was a town restaurant along the way offering the best split pea soup ever made. I was getting a little peckish so I headed in to try it out; it was expensive at $5 for a medium sized styrofoam cup and wasn’t all that great, my mum certainly does better from what I can remember. Whist in the restrurant somebody had bought some pancakes for takeaway and never picked them up so the waiter just gave them too me.. which was great because the split pea soup wasn’t all that filling.
I passed through a cool little Danish town of
Today’s cycle wasn’t very far to get to Cachuma Lake Recreation Area where I spent the night. I was disappointed too because the swimming pool that I was promised in the book was closed when it wasn’t the summer… it certainly was hot enough for summer at this point as sweat was dripping off my face and I was also told that swimming is prohibited in the Lake because it is drinking supply for the area. Seriously… what a total let down.
Because of my disappointment for getting wet in this hot weather the woman at the registration desk was kind enough to let me into the camp site for free, normally costing $5.
I set up my stuff and had a quick nap under the oak trees until Jay arrived, we got some beers where he paid for the majority of them and chatted till the other two arrived.
Regardless of the restriction of swimming in the lake I talked to one of the park rangers who told me it was possible to go for a swim so long as he wasn’t looking. It was incredibly refreshing.
For dinner I cooked up a bunch of the perishables I was lugging around and headed off to bed at a reasonable time after chatting with the other three.
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