Day Thirty Four - Tasting Pavement

Day Thirty Four – Tasting Pavement

Watsonville To Limekilm

Daily Brief

Chandler took a spill, and we couldn’t find a place to stay.

The Ride

Waking up at Chris’s Aunts house, we ate breakfast end everyone recollected and prepared for the days ride. As we headed out, we took our direction towards Big Sur, which was our original destination for the day. Owing to the unavailability for places to sleep we had had to change our destination, which in all reality was simply any place past Big Sur. Starting out, we passed two motorized vehicles, tractors to be exact. Still, we felt good being able to pass a motorized vehicle for once, even if it was meant for a farm. On the way towards Big Sur we experienced some good downhill runs, which were good until Chandler hit some gravel.

Flying down a downhill run at about 35 MPH Chandler hit some loose gravel on the shoulder of the road. Realizing what he was in, he hit his brakes. It slowed him down but unfortunately there was a large rock in his path, and since he was unable to turn, he hit it. The rock sent him flying over his handle bars and onto his side. Chandler managed to walk away with just some scrapes. Shaun patched him up and they were on their way.

Meanwhile Parry and Bob had made a sprint towards Big Sur and were out of range when Chandler had his crash, so when the van caught up to them they were eight miles up the road in Big Sur. They waited there until everyone caught up. In Big Sur Rocky and Bob took off back towards San Francisco and the rest of the group headed on to find a place to stay.

As we came across Lucia, a town after Big Sur, it was just a lodge and restaurant and there was no place for us there. So we had to continue onwards and finally came across a little camping site out the middle of nowhere. They were full, but they made room for five tired riders who were running out of options. The little campsite was called Limekilm and was in a valley that ran to the ocean.

The Van left us for the first time since ever, and we forgot to take out the propane but thankfully we were able to make a fire and cook dinner like we had all learned in Boy Scouts. Everyone stayed and camped except for Faith (Shaun’s fiancée), Laurie (Shaun’s mom) and Shaun. At least we didn’t have to set up camp on the road side. We did learn a valuable lesson though, if you want to start a fire, Lay’s potato chips are like magic kindling. They have so much grease that when they burn they can start a fire right up.

Daily Stats

Distance: 94.56
Time: 6:03
Avg Speed: 15.6
Max Speed: 42.0

Total Distance: 2175.76

P&C Pushups: 270