Rudy waiting for our room to be ready at Del Mar.
A couple of tacos and a chicken salad
A small mud pie. No, we did not finish it.
A small mud pie. No, we did not finish it.An interesting night in the notell motel in Dana Point. Rudy slept like a baby, no babies don't snore like that. Stopping in the first motel in town, even if you are tired and the French shopkeeper back up the road said she had heard good things about it, is not always the best decision. The guest next door had her TV on quite loud and the south bound traffic was right outside the door, and Rudy never heard the TV. But he saw the cockroaches this morning in the bathroom. Last night we walked down to Henneseys's Tavern for dinner. It is huge, actually three separate bars under one roof. One had hockey on the TV, the middle bar was actually a patio bar with live music and the third room had baseball on the TV. We opted for the baseball and had a nice dinner at the bar. Sonny, our server was from Santa Clara and has been on the job 12 days. Andrea, "Coach K" was just going off work but chatted a bit. She is running her 20th marathon either this weekend or next in Big Sur. She is co-founder/Chairman of the Board of We Rock Orange County's Kids (www.WeRunOCKids.org). Inspiring. She is hoping to qualify for next year's Boston Marathon. She needs to knock 15 minutes off her best time. Nice lady, we told her we would look for her finishing time in next years race results.
We were up early and out of the notell motel across the street to Starbucks for coffee and then on the road. We stopped at Antoines in San Clemente for breakfast and then on south with a tail wind and landed in the middle of a marathon being run on Camp Pendleton Marine Base. Had to show id to enter the base. Route was good and next we found ourselves in the middle of this years Orange County Tour de Cure. Lots of riders, friendly and up beat. We stopped at Angelo's Hamburgers for lunch. I ordered two chicken tacos and Rudy ordered a chicken salad. We were both thinking along the line of Taco Bell. Wrong. See the photo. Back on the road through neat towns of Carlsbad and Encinitis, passing lots of surfers and seeing lots of bike riders, skate boarders.
We called Choice Hotels and turned down the room in two beds in Encinitas as it was a smoking room and stayed at the Clarion in Del Mar. Our room wasn't ready so they gave us a couple of towels and we had to wait in the hot tub. Got in our room, so much better than last night. We walked up town for dinner at Bully's. Their early bird special, two entres (8 0z prime rib), a bottle of Sonoma Cab $15 and one dessert, $5. We had only a short ride tomorrow so went for it. The meal was very good and the mud pie was enormous. Another dinner guest was walking by and stopped in her tracks when she saw it. We invited her to help us eat it but she declined. Carrie and her friend are from Alberta and are in town to visit her brother who lives in the area. However, he is in Austria and can't get home because of the volcano eruption in Iceland. Back to the room, an early night as usual. Much quieter in the room tonight. 49 miles, 12 mph average.
We were up early and out of the notell motel across the street to Starbucks for coffee and then on the road. We stopped at Antoines in San Clemente for breakfast and then on south with a tail wind and landed in the middle of a marathon being run on Camp Pendleton Marine Base. Had to show id to enter the base. Route was good and next we found ourselves in the middle of this years Orange County Tour de Cure. Lots of riders, friendly and up beat. We stopped at Angelo's Hamburgers for lunch. I ordered two chicken tacos and Rudy ordered a chicken salad. We were both thinking along the line of Taco Bell. Wrong. See the photo. Back on the road through neat towns of Carlsbad and Encinitis, passing lots of surfers and seeing lots of bike riders, skate boarders.
We called Choice Hotels and turned down the room in two beds in Encinitas as it was a smoking room and stayed at the Clarion in Del Mar. Our room wasn't ready so they gave us a couple of towels and we had to wait in the hot tub. Got in our room, so much better than last night. We walked up town for dinner at Bully's. Their early bird special, two entres (8 0z prime rib), a bottle of Sonoma Cab $15 and one dessert, $5. We had only a short ride tomorrow so went for it. The meal was very good and the mud pie was enormous. Another dinner guest was walking by and stopped in her tracks when she saw it. We invited her to help us eat it but she declined. Carrie and her friend are from Alberta and are in town to visit her brother who lives in the area. However, he is in Austria and can't get home because of the volcano eruption in Iceland. Back to the room, an early night as usual. Much quieter in the room tonight. 49 miles, 12 mph average.
Hello there! It seems like forever ago that you were sitting at my bar in Dana Point. I hope that your riding is treating you both well. I DID qualify for Boston in 2010 (as I planned) and ran it in 2011. It was fun to go back and read your recap. It shows that when you set your mind to something and go after a certain goal you can achieve it. Cheers to you!
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