250 miles zoomed by today from Watsonville to San Luis Obispo with a side trip to the highway 1 road closure at Big Sur.
We stopped in Carmel for beeakfaat and a walk on the beach.
On the way to Big Sur we saw some beautiful scenery and a CA 1 that looked like a nice bike riding road. Unfortunately the flooding this spring washed out the Pfeiffer Canyon bridge followed by a 1/4 mile wide landslide further down the road cutting off some iconic California ocean views for locals as well as through cyclist and tourist.
Angela thanks me once again for renting the minivan to jump ahead to San Luis Obispo on our bike trip.
The Big Sur road closure in person. A woman working in the market by the state park there told me some cyclist were pushing their bikes on a steep trail around the bridge closure and were using a back road to bypass the land slide.
Seeing the landscapes slide by from the car was much different than cycling the route but still pleasurable, especially on the 40 mile long Carmel Valley Rd. we took to bypass Big Sur. In two days of driving the scenery has started to change dramatically from Redwoods and heavily forested coastal areas to rolling, arid hills, oaks and scrub brush. Our last 7 days of cycling to San Diego start tomorrow!!
Not sure pushing bikes past the landslide would be much fun. Riding tomorrow?
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