At long last, 6 months and 10,700km later, we have finally made it. Thank you for all the well wishes along the way and for following our trip! We'll update our other pages on our site which have been neglected down the Pacific Coast, including a few posts we are still behind in Oregon.. We'll post... Continue Reading →

After nearly 6 months of cycling, we reached our final destination of San Diego, California. It was a beautifully sunny day, and the temperature reached 25C, almost breaking the 27C record of 1952 for San Diego. We said good bye to Sandy and Tom after a wonderful breakfast of bacon, eggs, and even pancakes with real... Continue Reading →

We woke up a bit later than usual due to the very noisy campground the night before. We were one site in from the highway and the train tracks. After we had gone to bed, two separate RVs pulled into the campsites beside us and one even ran into the trees separating our site from theirs. We had a... Continue Reading →

We started the day riding on a bike path past a popular surfing area. Soon after we past a nuclear power plant, and then entered Camp Pendleton, a U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp.nTo avoid having cyclists needing to cycle on the prohibited I-5 freeway, they allow cyclists to bike through the camp. Initially we were on... Continue Reading →

We made it through LA with flying colours, and are now headed towards San Diego to arrive in just 2 more days! Today we are headed from Newport Beach to a campground in San Clemente. Although we could definitely notice the smog, the beach front and the bike path by the water was absolutely beautiful... Continue Reading →

We had a wonderful day cycling through LA. We headed back towards the coast and followed the ocean front bike path. It was mostly filled with locals walking and jogging, and an incredible number of surfers. There were many surfers cycling and they have a special rack to hold their surf board along their bike... Continue Reading →

Today we head into Los Angeles, an absolutely enormous metropolitan area with eight separate cities around it! You can imagine how the thought of this makes the touring cyclist a bit anxious! Early in the morning we said goodbye to Mike and made our breakfast at the beach. Everything was wet and sandy but we packed up... Continue Reading →

We were up early in Carpenteria, especially since our hiker-biker site was right next to the train tracks. We made an early start for about 100m and Adam got a flat tire on his front wheel. We changes the tube like pros and were soon on our way. We followed bike paths out of town... Continue Reading →

We were subjected to our worst raccoon attack yet last night. The sound of the waves was so loud that we didn't hear them until they pushed our dishes off the picnic table. Adam ventured out and found they had eaten everything in our cooler, except the oranges and apples. This included two half full... Continue Reading →

We left Lompoc a bit later then we had planned since Adam was trying to update the blog but I had a wonderful time at Starbucks reading the paper and sipping my coffee. There sure is a lot to be said for some relaxation in the morning on occasion. We managed to find the bike path... Continue Reading →