Surfing
I still smell like the ocean, even after a shower. It's kind of nice.
Only going to go surfing once this trip, but all the little problems I had last time I didn't have this time. I had no issue staying balanced on the board, and no issues with getting lined up on the wave this time. I stood up more regularly, and could almost always ride the wave just propped up on the board.
This time, my problem really was that I kept wanting to stand all the way up, instead of staying crouched, so I tended to get wobbly at some point in the wave and tip off. Waves were great all morning though. They actually had a negative low tide, which put us WAY out from the beach, and made for regular packs of 3 to 5 foot waves every few minutes first thing in the morning.
Definitely ran out of steam again with the paddling. Also jammed my toe into a rock falling off one time. Thankfully I was wearing the wetsuit booties because it was so cold this morning, but they slid up on my foot and I had to extract my toes from being balled up in the end of the bootie. Still pretty sore. Don't think I broke anything(my initial fear), but pressure from walking is kind of painful, esp. on the first toe next to my big one. I think I just jammed it really well though.
Not sure how I want to leave for home tomorrow. Going to send a big load of stuff to T, including my camping gear, since I don't foresee needing it, and the weight is wearing out my rear tire a little faster than I would like.
If I go the short way, and skip Yosemite(can't find any place that's near a good stopping point that takes me through it without making strange reroutes), then it's only 1700 miles. Very boring miles though. I'm pretty sure there is no good way to cross Arizona/Southern Nevada. Definitely don't need to go across North Nevada again, and I'd like to skip going North/South through New Mexico again. That would put me, effectively, in LA late tomorrow, and then cross Arizona/Southern New Mexico(probably Roswell) the next day, unless I find something fascinating along the way to distract me, which I might. That would leave me with about 550 miles to Austin on Monday at the earliest. Will think about it. Going to go do a little shopping for post cards and such, and then head back to the room for a bit, and decide what is staying on the bike, and what is going in tee box.
Only going to go surfing once this trip, but all the little problems I had last time I didn't have this time. I had no issue staying balanced on the board, and no issues with getting lined up on the wave this time. I stood up more regularly, and could almost always ride the wave just propped up on the board.
This time, my problem really was that I kept wanting to stand all the way up, instead of staying crouched, so I tended to get wobbly at some point in the wave and tip off. Waves were great all morning though. They actually had a negative low tide, which put us WAY out from the beach, and made for regular packs of 3 to 5 foot waves every few minutes first thing in the morning.
Definitely ran out of steam again with the paddling. Also jammed my toe into a rock falling off one time. Thankfully I was wearing the wetsuit booties because it was so cold this morning, but they slid up on my foot and I had to extract my toes from being balled up in the end of the bootie. Still pretty sore. Don't think I broke anything(my initial fear), but pressure from walking is kind of painful, esp. on the first toe next to my big one. I think I just jammed it really well though.
Not sure how I want to leave for home tomorrow. Going to send a big load of stuff to T, including my camping gear, since I don't foresee needing it, and the weight is wearing out my rear tire a little faster than I would like.
If I go the short way, and skip Yosemite(can't find any place that's near a good stopping point that takes me through it without making strange reroutes), then it's only 1700 miles. Very boring miles though. I'm pretty sure there is no good way to cross Arizona/Southern Nevada. Definitely don't need to go across North Nevada again, and I'd like to skip going North/South through New Mexico again. That would put me, effectively, in LA late tomorrow, and then cross Arizona/Southern New Mexico(probably Roswell) the next day, unless I find something fascinating along the way to distract me, which I might. That would leave me with about 550 miles to Austin on Monday at the earliest. Will think about it. Going to go do a little shopping for post cards and such, and then head back to the room for a bit, and decide what is staying on the bike, and what is going in tee box.