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 in LA. Best of all, even though it was 20C plus, we were the only ones there!
Update:
We followed the well marked bike path out of Irvine towards the coast. At one section there was a warning sign about Mountain Lions and the ‘rugged terrain’. After going through a perfectly normal section, we thought by those standards most of our trip should have had warning signs everywhere. 😉
Once we got back on the coast we followed the PCH through a few congested towns with parked cars on the shoulders. We took some backroads to try to avoid some of the congestion. Once out of the towns we had a nice bike lane almost the entire route to our campground. We past a sign saying that there was 113km to San Diego! Surprisingly it was the second sign we had seen on our trip down the pacific coast where the distance was both in miles and kilometers. It was hard to believe we were so close to our final destination and the end of our trip.
Right before our campground we met Russel and Ned (please correct us if we were wrong!), who were credit card touring from San Jose down to Oceanside. They were from New York and were visiting LA on business and decided to squeeze in a bike trip while there were out on the west coast. It was their last day of their 5 day trip. We had a great time cycling with them and had a nice chat through a maze of residential streets.
We said good bye to Russel and Ned and headed towards our campground. When we arrived the lady at the front kiosk said that they had gotten rid of their hiker/biker rate, but that we could pick any free site we wanted for a special hiker/biker rate! She was very nice and we ended up getting a fantastic waterfront site! We would have to say it is definitely in the top 3 campsites we have stayed on our trip. The views to the beach down below was phenomenal, and after dinner we headed down for a quick walk on the beach for the sunset.
Trip Around The World 
Leave a comment