We left Mary and Jim’s house in Desert Hot Springs just after 9 AM. Jackie, Mary, Bill, and Mel’s flights are arriving at the San Diego Airport around noon. In order to fit everyone in the car, we had to go to the campground first and empty the 4Runner so everyone could fit. Around 12:30 PM I left Tim and all our gear and headed to the airport. I arrived the cellphone lot about 30 minutes early so I thought I’d call the storage place for the 4Runner. I had made arrangements about a month ago to leave our car at a storage facility just 4 miles from the start of the bicycle ride. When I called I was told that the place near the start doesn’t have car storage, the car storage is about 15 miles north. Wonderful. I spent the next 30 minutes calling every storage place listed and was lucky to find a place that had space available. I was thinking, this is a great start for this trip, and then it started raining.
I picked up the rest of the team and headed to the campground, in the rain. Of corse, we stopped for beer and had a toast that we made it to San Diego.
I picked up the rest of the team and headed to the campground, in the rain. Of corse, we stopped for beer and had a toast that we made it to San Diego.
First of many beer on this adventure
Around 4:00 PM Patrick and Jimmy arrived and now our team is complete. By the way, the rain is continuing and picking up. Bill and Mel found a place by the RV and pitched their tent. Tim and I decided to wait till we got back from dinner to decided where we should pitch our tent based on where the puddles got bigger. We all drove down the road for dinner.
Everyone was pretty nervous about starting the ride tomorrow, especially with the rain still coming down. The good news is that we decided a few months ago to start on Day 0 and ride 23 miles, cutting the original Day 1 down from 58 miles and 5,000 feet of climbing to 35 miles and 4,000 feet of climbing.
We got back to the campground and Tim and I was reluctant to pitch in the rain and the muddy area around the RV, so we decided to sleep in the back of the 4Runner instead. We may as well take advantage of having our vehicle for one more night. There is really no set time for any of us to get up in the morning. Everyone that flew out today are pretty tired and jet-lagged. They all went to sleep at like 9 PM, so they will probably be up bright and early. We better to get sleep since we won’t be sleeping in till 10 AM like we got used to in Desert Hot Springs.
Everyone was pretty nervous about starting the ride tomorrow, especially with the rain still coming down. The good news is that we decided a few months ago to start on Day 0 and ride 23 miles, cutting the original Day 1 down from 58 miles and 5,000 feet of climbing to 35 miles and 4,000 feet of climbing.
We got back to the campground and Tim and I was reluctant to pitch in the rain and the muddy area around the RV, so we decided to sleep in the back of the 4Runner instead. We may as well take advantage of having our vehicle for one more night. There is really no set time for any of us to get up in the morning. Everyone that flew out today are pretty tired and jet-lagged. They all went to sleep at like 9 PM, so they will probably be up bright and early. We better to get sleep since we won’t be sleeping in till 10 AM like we got used to in Desert Hot Springs.
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