Day two

Believe it or not, we got up this morning and the legs still worked! Not bad for a couple of old guys. We started out at 7:45am bound for Big Sur. Since Watsonville is the artichoke capital of the world, we had to include a picture of what artichoke plants look like. We discovered that there were four or five fruit on each plant. Along the way we only got lost twice, ended up climbing a couple of monster hills and got pulled over by the police. The story we planned on sharing was that we got pulled over for speeding, but we cannot tell a lie. There are some parts of highway 1 that are more like a freeway and bikers are not allowed to ride on the highway. That was our first turn that we missed, so the policeman told us how to get off and carry on. We ate lunch at Seaside. The second turn we missed was in Monterrey (what a beautiful downtown area) so we ended up on part of the 17 mile loop. We were able to get off of that but the price to pay was a monster hill that kept on going up. We rode thru Carmel where both Scott/Shelley and Kirk/Carolyn spent our honeymoons.

From there it was mostly coastline riding, with quite a few hills along the way. But another beautiful day for riding - sun, slight wind at our backs and continual encouragement from Scott (even though I'm sure he was the one that got us lost). We passed point Sur along the way with a nice lighthouse. We arrived in Big Sur at about 3pm and immediately found some ice cream. What would a trip be without ice cream. Finally a picture to prove we are both on this trip together.

Location:Big Sur