Remember yesterday when I said I may have to ride in WIND somewhere along the line? Welcome to yesterday. I'm really tired of this sh(oops - insert french word here. Maddie knows what I'm talking about). Another short day, only 300 miles. The intent was to get to San Simeon early enough to do a short tour of the Hearst Castle, but when I checked in about 3:30, I was just worn out. Started the morning with cloudy skies, and it never did reach 70 degrees. Traffic - ugh. The only good thing I can say about LA is they have car pool lanes for cars with 2 or more people, and motorcycles can use them. But if those lanes didn't exist, it's just 5 or 6 lanes of concrete with slow moving traffic. In many cases, I found myself in the far right lane going 5mph over the limit, and EVERYBODY was still passing me!! That of course was after I got out of the rush hour direction. After I got back on I-5 just north of LA, things seemed to get a little better. I took rt 126 through Filmore and on to Ventura. Beautiful fields of everything agricultural. It's amazing the diversity of crops you can grow here. As soon as I hit the coast - WIND, and more WIND. Doesn't it ever let up? Well - according to every person I talked to at the gas stations I stopped at, it's been like this for the last couple weeks. And then it got cold. Not bitter cold, but at 60 mph, when it get down to 54, that's cold. Had to stop and put on not only my liner, but my neck warmer, heavier gloves, and my chaps. I felt like Nanuk of the North. It only got cold the last 40 miles or so, but the wind kicked up about 50 miles before that. On the positive side of things, it was a beautiful drive. Not what I was expecting, but beautiful none the less. The mountains are in stark contrast to the ones in Alaska, or even Tenn., or even Arizona for that matter. AZ mountains were just big pieces of rock. At least here, there is some vegitation. Most of it's brown, but it gives it a softer look. When you get to the ocean, it just is a look that I have never seen anywhere else. Boy - that wind really made for some big waves!!
So the idea for tomorrow is to get to the Castle and do a tour or two. Hopefully, the weather will calm down some. It's really getting to the point of being scary on occasion when I'm on the road. Heading inland and picking up the interstate is looking more appealing all the time. Oh - the problems of being me!
No pictures today - maybe tomorrow.
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