76k and close enough to 1000m climbing Left by 8 and managed to beat a lot of the Sunday traffic (hotels and motels here have 11am or even 12 checkout!) A couple of roadwork/signal one-laners helped a bit - we'd pull over and let the batch of cars through then have the road to ourselves …
Rest day in Gualala
A much needed break today - for me anyway. Marc could probably just keep going with his Energizer Battery powered legs (and mind over matter philosophy). I'm still working on the "Shut up Legs" thing. Maybe we need some matching 'Shut Up Legs' jerseys. Last night we met up again with the three American ladies …
Day 14 – Mendocino to Gualala
80k and +1100m climbing Legs were feeling it today, despite the elevation total coming from lots of ups and down. More and more spectacular coastal scenery that is impossible to capture adequately on camera. Part of that is because there was literally nowhere to pull off the road. In parts the other side of the …
Day 13 – Westport to Mendocino
Blue skies! Views! Westport was a cute little place - favourite place to stay so far. The room at Westport Inn, while not looking much from the outside, was nice and comfy. The dinky little general store was just a couple of houses up. They made food, and so we had pizza for dinner, and …
Day 12 – Garberville to Westport
84km and about +1220m climbing Big day in the climbing department with the big hill out of Leggett providing the big challenge to look forward to today. (Or rather to be a bit anxious about). On top of that, I had a Garmin debacle. Somehow when I was unplugging it from the usb charger my …
Day 11 – Fortuna to Garberville (Avenue of Giants)
85k. +655m climbing Left Fortuna in the rain,but the day cleared up to a sunny (bloody hot) 34 degrees. We ended up riding into Garberville fairly late because we took our time through Avenue of Giants- a longish chat over lunch with 3 lovely American women who are cycling border to border, and then we …
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Rest day in Fortuna
So, not the most salubrious of towns, but a nice, normal - in fact rather spacious - hotel room. We have a couple of biggish days coming up, so we decided to give the legs a break. And go walk a loop around town for nearly 7k. What the? It wasn't even a nice walk. …
Day 10 – Trinidad to Fortuna
(76k/+444m) Now in Fortuna, in what feels pretty fancy compared to what we've been staying in. (For not much more, it should be said - so we've decided to have our next rest day tomorrow on the basis of accommodation quality, rather than what the town is like. Have the feeling we're a bit in …
Day 9 – Klamath to Trinidad
... with a spot of single track on an old coast road detour that we heard about through a Pacific Bike route Facebook group. Also Newton B Drury Parkway. …
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