San Fran

Well we are having a great time in San Fran. The city is really nice. I think we have pretty much seen most of it. Lets see Saturday we walked all around the park in the city, saw some bison, a x-c meet, sat by a lake and watched people play music. Then we went out to dinner with Doug and Pam Barry, UConn alumns. It was a great time, they drove us all around the city. We went out to a great dinner followed by an even better desert at Gheridelli (sp??) Oh my it was good, so good we went back again yesterday with Rose! She took us to Chrissy Field and we walked around. Dan and I got a ton of National Park stamps for our book! We went to a sourdough bread factory for lunch and I had my first bread bowl....delicious! The night was capped off with a tour of Alcatraz, which was actually very entertaining and we got another stamp. The tour was mostly and audio tour, so you put on your own set of headphones and listened as you walked through the old prision. I thought that was pretty unique. We stayed extra long to go to a privite lecture about the escape from Alcatraz. They guy was so into it and it was pretty creepy being in the prision with not to many peopl in there!

Today we have the wine tour with Dan's uncle! It should be a lot of fun. He is bring us up to the Napa valley to visit a couple of different vinyards.

Tomorrow we are off on our bikes again! I am ready to get moving again, I miss riding and traveling to a new place each night (i know probably 5 min after I am on my bike I'll be thinking something different!)

I'll try and get some pics up here before we leave San Fran!

Liz

Everythings Bigger in CA!

Upper Left is a picture of the Redwoos we rode through. They were huge and beautiful. Upper right is Paul Bunyon and his huge bull named Babe! Bottom is a Banana Blug with Dan's hand as reference at our campsite!

More Pics

Upper right is a picture of the beautiful CA coast, super foggy!

Alrightie so this is a picture of the road we climbed! super narrow and hilly, to your left is another shot of the narrow winding hills we have traveled

This Bottom one was our awesome campsite at Samuel Taylor State park. They have this really neat thing called "Hike and Bike" It is only 3$ per person to stay. We put our tents in a circle of Redwoods!

CA Picture update

Hey Guys we are going to upload our pictures onto a slideshow as soon as possible, here are a few for now. Paul Bunyon is on the side, with the three of us. Here we have a tire change going on after a HUGEEEE uphill. Uptop we have our first campsite, it was sooo misty and foggy it was almost like a rainforest. The upper right is after we crossed over the bridge! This is Laura's camera thats why they are all of me and Dan! I am going over to get a memory card for my camera now so we will post most of Laura to come!!

SAN FRAN!

We'll we made it to San Fran!! We have biked well over 400 mi and we are ready for a little break. My (liz) butt is a little soar and i am super excited to do some laundry haha and eat some peanut butter (which ive already done thanks mom!!) So we made it to San Fran today, biked over the bridge, i was real apprehensive about doing that but we made it! So many people were on the bridge though it was hard to manvuer by them. So we biked around the city alittle bit, very hilly. Now we are staying at Dans cousin's roses apartment which is right in San Fran and realllly nice. Tomorrow we are sight seeing and hopefully going out to dinner with an UConn alum, Sun is acaltrax tour and monday is our wine tour! This is just a quick update before we go out to dinner, but pictures are to come!

The trip has been awesome. We have seen so many people touring the CA coast. Today we met this guy going from Alaska all the way down to the South America tip. His bike was LOADED!!!! I have a new appreciation for biking with weight, it is a lot harder. I have only fallen once, but it is hard to steer around these tight CA curves.

So we are real happy to be indoors in a house tonight, we have had some wild camping experiances, neighbors one night, racoons the next (we well post more on that later!) but for now we are inside at Rose's!!

We will update pictures and post more later!

Liz

Today we reached Bodega Bay! We are about 70 miles out of San Francisco and very psyched to get to the city! Yesterday we biked 70 miles - including the steepest part of the California coastline. Today we just did 30 miles - a little bit of a recovery day. The roads are very curvy. A typical road is a downhill curve with a "U" turn around a river or the coast at the bottom and then back uphill again. The weather is still chilly but not as foggy. We understand the weather should be improving soon. Hopefully we can post some pictures when we get to San Francisco.

WE'RE GETTING THERE! We arrived in Westport CA today. 230 miles down. The cycling has been great and the scenery is awesome. A little saddle sore but still traveling.