10/26 Great ride today. Put a few more miles on than I have for a while and I’m glad I did. It was another hot one and I was tempted to stop at 50 miles with some other tourists I met on the road today. I pushed on though and arrived here at the State Park. Unfortunately it was closed. I rode in anyway and spotted 2 other cyclists. They said the camp hosts, who were in an RV nearby, said they could stay–the CG only being closed to cars/RVs. As it turns out they are lettiing me stay here at no charge (normally $10), there are free (hot) showers, potable water and a great section of beach that I checked out after setting up camp.
A couple of the other riders I mentioned were talking about staying here but I think they wound up staying back in town at mile 50. One of the guys, John, is riding down from Vancouver and then through Baja so I might end up riding with him. Not sure though.
Finally saw some wildlife today but now that I’m 270mm-less its hard to get close ups. In fairness though, the 3 things I saw were in and out of the trees so getting a shot would have been difficult. I’m not sure what they were but they might have been ring-tailed foxes. Is that even an animal? If it’s not it should be.
A couple days ago I forgot to mention something that happens all the time and it makes this trip a lot more meaningful. A fairly significant number of people I’ve met all end up recanting some memory they have of being somewhere like Alaska, that they used to ride bicycles on tour or just that they really want to go to some of the places I’ve been lucky to see or want to go myself. A short and funny example of this was when I met Brooke and Ranmey a few nights ago. After talking for a while I’d mentioned wanting to go to New Zealand. Well it turns out that both Brooke and Ranmey were there in the same tiny little town at the same time. This was about 5 years ago and they just realized they were both there now. How cool is that?
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