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Xtracycle Bike Camping (with Kids)

For those of you who were wondering, no, the heat wave hasn’t lasted three weeks. We’ve just been lazy bloggers of late! We recently returned from a fantastic short bike camping trip with our kids. Tim and I haven’t been … Continue reading

Pacific Coast Bike Tour Day 24: Doheny State Beach to San Elijo (Part 2)

Previous post: Pacific Coast Bike Tour Day 24, Part 1 [continued, Part 2] Our mood light, we left Carlsbad and started pedaling toward Whole Foods in Encinitas where we planned to buy dinner groceries. We spent most of the ride … Continue reading

Pacific Coast Bike Tour Day 24: Doheny State Beach to San Elijo (Part 1)

previous post: Pacific Coast Bike Tour Day 23: Palos Verdes to Doheny State Beach Day 24: Doheny State Park to San Elijo State Park Since we had to vacate the hiker/biker site at Doheny State Beach by 9:00 AM, we didn’t … Continue reading

Pacific Coast Bike Tour Day 23: Palos Verdes to Doheny State Beach

previous post: Pacific Coast Bike Tour Day 22: Leo Carrillo State Park to Palos Verdes Day 23: Palos Verdes to Doheny State Park The morning featured a gourmet breakfast and espresso. Nice! We’d gotten used to our lowbrow, dirt-bag bike touring … Continue reading

Pacific Coast Bike Tour Day 21: Carpinteria to Leo Carrillo State Park

previous post: Pacific Coast Bike Tour Day 20: El Capitan State Beach to Carpinteria Day 21: Carpinteria to Leo Carrillo State Park We woke in the gopher site at 6:00 AM to a blaring car alarm followed by the horns … Continue reading

Pacific Coast Bike Tour Day 20: El Capitan State Beach to Carpinteria

previous post: Pacific Coast Bike Tour Day 19: Lompoc to El Capitan State Beach Day 20: El Capitan State Beach to Carpinteria We met another friendly bike tourist in the El Capitan State Beach hiker/biker site. The five of us shared … Continue reading

Pacific Coast Bike Tour Day 19: Lompoc to El Capitan State Beach

previous post: Pacific Coast Bike tour , Day 18: San Luis Obisbo to Lompoc Day 19: Lompoc to El Capitan State Beach We woke up in the Lompoc city park, took care of our usual morning routine of coffee and … Continue reading

Pacific Coast Bike Tour Days 15, 16 and 17 San Simeon to San Luis Obisbo

Previous post: Big Sur to San Simeon Day 15: San Simeon to San Luis Obisbo We woke up in the hiker/biker site and most of the riders who had arrived late the evening before had already left. Early risers get … Continue reading

Pacific Coast Bike Tour Days 14 and 15: Big Sur to San Simeon

Pacific Coast Bike Tour previous post: Santa Cruz to Big Sur Day 14: Big Sur to Plasket Creek After a day of R&R at Big Sur campground, everyone was ready to tackle the day. Our daughter was feeling better, Tim thought … Continue reading

Pacific Coast Bike Tour Days 10 to 13: Santa Cruz to Big Sur

Previous post: Oakland to Santa Cruz Day 10: Santa Cruz to Monterey Santa Cruz to Monterey/Pacific Grove should be a lovely day on the bike. That is, unless there’s a raging headwind and your  normal power pedaler is hitting day … Continue reading