Day Ten: SoCal to Middle Cal...is that what they call it?

We got up early with Mike to go meet his brother and check out some cool airplanes. Of course this was AFTER we went to Starbucks to get some caffeine for the day. Had a fun morning, but we were off to travel west til we hit water and then north and had to get a move on.

Mike gave us directions to go through downtown LA for a more scenic route, but then stressed that we don't want to miss the road signs cause we could end up in a very bad place and get shot. After talking to someone who cares about me and being told that wasn't a bright idea, we opted for I10 straight to Santa Monica Pier. The traffic wasn't too bad until we got close and then it was the typical LA parking lot on the interstate.

We made it to the PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) and headed north. We took the PCH up through Monterey, CA ,where we are now. Every once in a while you had to go over and pick up the 101 but the majority of the day was spent on the 1. It was a very twisty road after San Simeon north. About 60 miles of tight curves. Robby loved that. He got in the lead way before it turned curvy, but that was a mistake. He missed our turn twice. The first time I followed him and caught up and told him we needed to turn around, the second time I just went ahead and turned and figured he would miss me sometime and come back and find my brightly colored bike sitting here at the missed turn. It only took him a minute to miss me. ;-) I told him he was not ever allowed to point out any missed wildlife to me again since apparently we have figured out that I read the signs while he is looking for Bambi.

Robby left me behind when we got into the tight turns. You can sure tell he is 22 and doesn't have a mortgage or any of those thoughts of disibility pay while cornering. :-) Speedy! He pulled over to wait for me two or three times. Each time we put on more clothes. Crazy that yesterday when we left Vegas it was pushing up to going over 100 degrees and we were wearing as little as possible and today I had on four layers by the time we got here and my teeth were chattering.

We had a beautiful viewing day. Rob had never seen the Pacific Ocean so that was new for him. I asked him if he was excited and he said what do you want me to do cry, do a cart wheel? We did see a little seal that was floating on his back and flipping his flippers and sticking his tongue out at us when we stopped near Hearst Castle.

More tomorrow. Have around 3200 miles so far. I forgot to check the exact mileage before we came up.

Nite!