Saturday May 2, 2015

What a great day of riding. The first 30 ks were on Highway 101 and was typical of highway riding. It was pretty, but when you have to concentrate on the traffic, it doesn’t give you much time to appreciate the scenery.  However, we did spot these llamas.

We had to go through another tunnel. However, this tunnel had flashing lights to indicate to the vehicles that there were cyclists in the tunnel. I was peddling like crazy. I could hear transports behind me in the tunnel, they passed me as soon as I got out the other side and onto the shoulder. I think they were straddling the centre line in the tunnel so that no one could go around them, thereby keeping it safe for me. Although hearing them behind me made me nervous. So noisy in the tunnel.

A mile after going through the tunnel we exited Highway 101 and joined Highway 1. We had a 4 km climb up to 1,053 feet, sounds so much more impressive than 321 metres.

It was a beautiful route all the way into Lompoc, rolling hills, farmland and valleys, just lovely.

It was a cool, windy ride and when we got into Lompoc we opted to stay in a motel rather than putting the tent up. Washing needed to get done and blog and research can be done for the next week of cycling. Good excuse anyway.

We will have to start sticking to the budget soon.