Blogs from Alpine, California, United States, North America

Hello everybody, Welcome to our travel blog! If you're reading this, it means that we've either met on the road, or you are a member of the "families and loved ones" category, either way, thank you for reading and helping support our trip! Well try to update close to everyday, but depending on cell service and his exhausted we are, it might not happen. Day one did not start smoothly. We Spent all morning getting our bikes road ready and we didn't leave until about 10am. We schmoozed with a few other riders we met at the beach who are doing the same ride with a support vehicle, turned the go-pro on and set off. 5 minutes into the trip the go-pro mount broke, so we got our 5 min I wanted (we plan on stringing ... read more

on the 24th we rode today cabrillo national monument. there's also lighthouse there. it was only appropriate because the first half of our trip also started with a lighthouse. we climbed 500 feet. it was a good warm up for our trip. on the 25th we left san diego at about 630. we wanted to get an early start on sunday to avoid traffic. it worked beautifully. who rode about 37 miles and climbed 2500 ft. we spent the night in alpine california. lit was a very cool hotel. sam went for a swim outdoors. bob didn't. we all agreed that we had all we needed. my leg muscles were quite sore. we didn't take any breaks the entire day, we did however have multiple keithaca waits. that is what we decided to call, in honor ... read more