California Livin'

What the heck are we doing living and cycling in London, I'm as Mad as m' Dad and he's pretty mad. Why doesn't every cyclist just live on the west coast - just incredible! We're cycling from Monterrey down to Santa Barbara with a detour into the Sierra Nevadas there are 4 of us and hoping to do something like 70-100 miles a day.

We arrived yesterday in Carmel, where Clint Eastwwod was once Mayor, the weather is blue skies and 60 degrees. We put the bikes together and just went out on a short 30 mile spin down the coast by Pebble beach and Monterrey itself, just beautiful. The surf is crashing on the beach on one side and the tall pines rising up on the other, at one point we just pulled over to enjoy the scene. Once we got back to our hotel, we went for a walk round Carmel and realized the sleepy hippy town Carmel was on my last visit 25 years ago has definitely moved up market