Monterey

Another great day. We never got on the road until 9:00am, after a nice breakfast at the Davenport Road House. As we were leaving, two couples rode up for breakfast. They had camped at Pigeon Point and were headed south. We never saw them again, so they must have taken their time with breakfast. The hill we could see from our room did not turn out to be as difficult as we had feared, more tail wind today!!! Hwy 1 takes you past all kinds of fields. We saw some big fields of leeks among other things. Does a leek on the road qualify as road kill? We saw quite a few leek on the road. Or is it leeks, who knows. Entering Santa Cruz we diverted off our planned route and rode right along the coast from Natural Bridges park all the way to the Santa Cruz Board Walk. Beautiful ride, lots and lots of people on the path along the bluff over looking the water. Moms pushing babies in strollers, fellow bikers, people fishing, walkers, people just enjoying the day, etc, Lots of surfers in the water. We had a photo op and had a couple of lads from Australia take our picture. They have been in Canada for a year and are touring the US en route home. I said as Australians I thought they would be in the water surfing. No, the water is "to bloody cold."

We stopped in a coffee shop near Cabrillo College for a bite and then back on the road. We passed some lovely fields of heather with a big beautiful old home over looking the fields. The house is on Heather Lane, how lucky can you get. Later on we passed a few miles of strawberry fields on both sides of the road. Lots of workers in the fields. Closer to Moss Landing we rode by lots of artichoke fields.

We road a bike trail into Monterey and to our lodging. We walked up the street to Caruso's Italian on North Fremont. The manager, Richard from Suva, Fiji was very gracious and friendly. He gave us some sherbet and added a loaf of his homemade bread to our leftover take out bag. Nice guy. He has been in US for many years. His oldest son is going to St Mary's College in Moraga and he just bought his 16 year old son a very hot looking Mustang. Scary combination. His son had been looking for a car and Richard bought the Mustang, had it detailed and then parked it near the restaurant with a "For sale by owner" sign on it with his son's cell phone number listed as the contact number. His son saw the car and told his dad about it and they went to look at it. Richard told his son to be sure and bring his cell phone with him. After looking at the car, he told his son to call the owner and ask about price. The boy realized it was his number on the sign, asked his dad if it was for real and gave him a hug and a few tears.

We have great room tonight, two rooms, two TVs, fridge, microwave and $30 cheaper than last night.

I am working on getting some photos posted. Still new at this blogging. I had to call Brian for some help and he got me going in the right direction.

It is off to Big Sur in the morning.