Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Half Moon Bay State Park

We finally arrived at Half Moon Bay State Park unscathed.  It was a very pretty ride after we got out of the City and found our trail.  We arrived and decided to go into town for a spare tube as Brandon had a flat on our way there and just used another tube.  He had rotated his tires out because the back was getting worn out.  It was a beautiful beach at Half Moon Bay and we saw Jamie again.  There was a hawk that was watching over our campground so no little vermen had gotten into our bag of food.  Which is the biggest thing at night we must do is put our food away in a bear box so no animals get to it.  The next morning we had decided to ride into Santa Cruz and finally do a warm showers.  Anne was a very good host and gave us a nice path to travel so we could see a lot of the beautiful city of Santa Cruz.  She has two dogs which were very nice and they were shy but seemed to like Brandon.  We met Eric the next day and he is a cyclist also they are both very energetic and were the best hosts as we had never done warm showers before and were a little nervous.  Thank You so much Anne!!  We left early but of course as usual got a little backwards on the map.  The ride to Monterey as the book says is pretty uneventful and boring because you travel along a lot of strawberrie fields and agriculture.  Brandon and I both found it facinating and we were tempted too much by the beautiful aroma of the strawberries so Brandon went and grabbed two plump delicious ones for us to gobble down before getting caught.   When we were about 10 miles away from camp we ran into a very nice gentleman who stands by the Pacific Coast Trail every day at 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. as the bike angel, he offered us water and fresh cookies he had made and power bars.  It was so sweet he has literally been the first person that has offered any help along the road.  He told us his daughter was hiking the Pacific Coast Trail and is almost into Oregon, she started from Mexico.  Too far for me!! Jaimie was there at camp and wondered were we had camped the night before because we are all following the same book.  Told him we used the warm showers, discussed the map for the morning then decided to turn in for the night.  Monterey has a Naval training base so we were put to sleep with Taps and early rise the next morning to revely.  It was pretty neat!

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