WEST COAST TOUR SEP 2010

San Francisco to Santa Cruz

86 miles

Sep 24, 2010

This was one of our toughest but gratifying days. We had almost 5,000 ft of climbing, most of it in the first 30-40 miles. Nice day and later in the ride we had a nice tailwind. Getting out of SF and its suburbs had lots of climbing and traffic. SR1 was very challenging with lots of traffic and absent shoulder part of the way early.

A ship coming into SF as we are leaving

Started seeing alot of pampas grass after about 25 miles
on the route

Crop lands started about 30 miles north of Santa Cruz

This field is something I had never seen before. Artichokes

Sorry about the pic quality. I was shooting on the run

trying to keep up with Ron

This camp was strange. It is not a camp ground and the

cars were parked on the road shoulder. Big sign said

"Keep out"