Since Andrea and I agreed to meet up in Santa Maria, CA, and I wanted to have one day without riding in the next few days, I had some options: I could ride from Palm Desert to San Diego, stay a full day to have the non-riding on Friday and then head North to Santa Maria, or, option two, ride towards Los Angeles on some nice roads, stay overnight somewhere, ride to Santa Maria and arrive a day early and take my non-riding day on Saturday.
This morning I decided to take option two. Part of it was that I wanted to ride Angeles Crest highway again tomorrow, this time East to West, but I hadn't planned with fire related road closures (welcome back to California). So, I'll plan some mixed riding for tomorrow to get to Santa Maria.
Today I had a beautiful riding day, wonderful roads, it's really worth taking a closer look at the map and zoom around in it on Google Maps.
I took only one photo while being stopped at one of four one-lane road construction stops:
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| Typical California Mountain Landscape |
It was a very hot day, even in the mountains it rarely dropped below 30C/86F, so I wasn't all too inclined to stop in the sun (not much shade here) and take photos. I'm in GoreTex gear and stopping in this heat feels like I'm wearing a non-ventilated plastic bag ... while riding it's okay with the air moving, but even traffic lights are not nice.
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| Route Day 32 |
An solche Temperaturen werde ich mich nie gewöhnen. Und das um diese Jahreszeit... dazu die Trockenheit und die Buschfeuer. Nee. Mir waren die letzten zwei Sommer in DE schon zu heiß und trocken. Schön, dass Ihr Euch noch treffen und ein Stück zusammen fahren könnt.
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