3rd Day, Big Sur

The third day went frrm Monterey to Lime Kiln State Park in Big Sur. You can find the route again on the Garming GPS link. And guess what today's entertainment entailed?



Yes...hills!

But before we get to those exciting hills...rewind. Alarm went off at 6:00 AM. I had breakfast at 7:00 AM ; nice continental breakfast (all for $44). Had Wheat bread with strawberry jam.
I left at 7:40 AM and was within 10 minutes back on PCH Bike-route. There I met my first hill of the day where I had to push the bike up!
YES...THE DUTCH DIESEL PUSHING HIS BIKE UP HILL!!!!
And if that was not embarrassing enough, 40 miles into the ride was the 2^nd hill I had to push the bike up again...aaaghhhhh.
The whole ride were beautiful coastal sights

Beautiful Coastline

Saw sea otters chilling on there back and seals bathing in the sun and making noise.

Seals chilling in the sun

Arrived at 2 :30 PM at Lime Kiln State Park. Had to pay $5 for the site :o) Little store for food 2 miles up the road. Cellphone coverage 4 mile up the road. Wanted to let Saskia know I was OK, and had to bike 9 miles roundtrip to let her know! If you do not believe me, see Garmin plot for prove. Let's say those were "bonus miles".

Pitched tent, and had a beer and cooked oodles of noodles with Tuna. Yummy!

My Crib...

Beer on da Beach



Noticed that my Achilles of my shorted leg was hurting. I have been biking 3 days with platform pedals because my SPD’s broke down in SF. My SPD shoes have shims for my leg difference.  Suspect that the lack of shim is causing this. Attempted to fix my SPD pedals with some makeshift tools and lock-tide. We will see tomorrow if that band-aide works. Have my platform pedals and tools at hand to swap them again when needed.

Tomorrow I will try to get to moro bay, maybe San Luis Obispo.