Mike and Eric's Big Adventure
Paso Robles to Santa Maria
91 miles
4,745 ft. elevation gain
Words of the day: HALF WAY TO LA
Leaving Paso Robles we ride back toward the coast. On the way we passed the 805 brewing company and got to smell the hops brewing in the plant. Really nice. A right turn away from highway 101 and we were off to another ALC favorite hill climb, THE EVIL TWINS . Climb, climb climb, and then just when you think the hill is done, abother climb! But the best part of the day… HALFWAY TO LA. Pictures pictures and more pictures! The ALC roadies had us line line up to leave the half way to LA spot and sent us down the hill in groups of 10. A good idea as the downhill is a 6% grade and it went on for miles. Nice to coast for a while. Soon we found ourselves back on highway 1.
Soon we arrived at another beautiful CA spot, Pismo Beach. When Mike Drives to and from LA for work, Pismo is a favorite spot. The views here are gorgeous. ALC tradition is to stop at the old west cinnamon roll for a roll slathered in cream cheese frosting. Alas, Eric and I arrived just as the caboose was coming around the corner. Off we went but vowed to stop there for a roll on the drive home on Sunday.
Again at each rest stop Eric and I would check in with each other to see how we felt and again today we felt fine so we kept on peddling and finished every mile. As we got closer to camp there was a lot of backed up car traffic on the road. We realized that the caboose was stuck in traffic! Woo Hoo, the caboose could not chase us out of the rest stop today. We had fun at rest stop 4, had snow cones and watched a wizard of oz number. The rest stop 4 team always puts on the best show of the day.
We arrived in Santa Maria in time for a nice evening. The camp here is really nice. We had dinner with our training friends Chris and Prianka. We also found out that Eric’s first instagram post every was selected to be in the daily spin, the ALC newsletter. He tagged #ridecrush and it was a photo of him kissing me on the cheek. We are ALC celebs now. Another great day.
