William O’Brien State Park 47 miles

My journey started on Wednesday afternoon later than originally planned. On Monday was going to take the bus to the Sierra Club to make phone calls. At the last minute there was another event wanted to go. To do both had to take my bike for the final ride before I left. When I was about five miles from home the crankshaft arm fell off my bike had to take the bus home, It is hard to pedal with only one pedal. Since it was a new bike the bike shop fixed it quickly on Wednesday so had time to leave for William O’Brien State Park for the first day of the journey. Once it was fixed able to hit the road and nothing unusual happened.

On average it rains 50% of the days on my bike tours but this time only had one day of biking in the rain. It did rain at night about three nights. The wind shifted several times and the times I really needed a tailwind to get to my destination I got one. Some days were in shorts and had to drink lots of liquids and have ice cream. Other days it was cool and at night or in the morning part of the ride had to put on a sweatshirt. To be on the road for 17 days and have cooperative weather made the trip much more enjoyable.