Limekiln State Park to Cambria, CA

Morning at camp Limekiln, Angela stays warm with her robe and her sleeping bag. We had hot coffee and apples with peanut butter before we broke camp. 

After breaking camp we walked our bikes up an 18% grade back up to the Pacific Coast Highway immediately above where we pitched our tent the night before and said good bye. 

We had a nice but mostly gray day of riding down the coast, temps in the high 50’s and low 60’s. 

Pacific Valley had some beautiful wild flowers. 

20 miles in we stopped for a real big boy and big girl breakfast at the Whale Watchers Cafe along Big Sur. Apples and Peanut Butter alone would not see us through this day!  We needed pancakes, steak, eggs and hash browns!!  And more coffee too!

And this is the quarter mile long landslide that closed PC 1 through Big Sur for a year back in 2017.   It’s still showing signs of construction. 

  

That little yellow speck in the middle of the picture is Angela grinding up another coastal climb. We had one climb up to 1,000 ft. above sea level today. 

We stopped at Ragged Point around 1pm for a coffee and short rest. This women from Quebec had been riding her Harley Davidson Trike from home to CA when she got some over heating and low oil pressure alarms. She asked me for help in understanding the service manager (English was her second language) on the phone in order to get her some help. She had at least a two hour wait ahead of her but it was on the way and she was happy. 

After Ragged Point we had great coastal riding past the turn off for the Hearst Castle near San Simeon. 

We heard some strange noises and stopped along this ocean side creek to find a bunch of elephant seals playing around. 

Almost to Cambria and to our hotel. Just in time as the occasional rain drops or mist was starting to turn into rain. 

The last drops of my Jameson as I wait for my turn in the shower. Then off for the best cheeseburger and fries we’ve had on the trip at JJ’s, just a block down the street.