I hung out with Matt, my sister's fiance, who hosted me for the night.  He is finishing up a mechanical engineering masters at Cal Poly.  We ate at Firestone Grill and the Tri Tip is still as awesome as I remember it.  We punished the meal.

Thursday is an official rest "zero miles" day.  This means kick back, no time in the saddle, stay out of the sun, hydrate, and catch a flick downtown. 

Scott took a spill in San Francisco as he was too excited when we were approaching the city, so we needed to get him a new helmet in SLO.  We stopped at my favorite bike shop, Foothill Cyclery.  Scott had a sweet present waiting from a special someone which fully covered his new helmet and hopefully will protect his noggin for the rest of the trip and then some.

Josh runs the store and amazingly he still has the original receipt for my road bike so I'll get the frame fully warrantied!  It was great to see the new store location in the shopping center on Foothill and Broad.  I also picked up some No 5 Chain-L "High Mileage Formula".  All of the other chain lube I've tried doesn't seem to even last a day of our rides before the chain starts to squeak.  This stuff is high quality and I've only seen it in San Luis Obispo @ Foothill Cyclery.

I'm lining up places to stay so we can ditch more of our camping gear as we finish up the last few days.  I'm no longer dehydrated and plan to keep it that way.  I enjoy Type 1 fun.  Santa Barbara tomorrow!

Day 17: Big Sur to San Luis Obispo 108 mi

I finally got my appetite back in Pfeiffer State Park.  It was warm even when we pulled in around dusk.  Dinner was mac'n'cheese and Texas Toast and it was delicious.  We didn't require sleeping bags and the mosquitos left us alone for the most part.

I was hoping to take a cold shower, but showers there are only hot and scalding!  The water still felt nice after a long day of riding.

We left in the morning after replacing the BOB trailer tire.  Over 4000 ft of climbing for the day and most of the climbing happens in the first 45 miles before lunch. We stopped for lunch at Ragged Point and it wasn't as amazing as I was hoping, but I was hungry.  We did meet some cyclists getting their gear SAGed on a ride down the coast.  It sounded pretty good.  It had cooled down to the mid to high eighties, and I drank 8 water bottles.

Elevation Profile from Map My Ride

I stayed in Ragged Point for a good hour and fifteen minutes to make sure I had a solid lunch and rehydrate.  Scott who doesn't seem to need to eat or drink had a bowl of chilly and headed off to SLO to draft some of our SAGed friends and make it in time for Pats Birthday.  He was in SLO by 5:30.  I didn't leave until after 2:30 and arrived in SLO at 6:15 and was happy to be there before 7.

Fort and Erica and Scott were waiting for me at the Frog and Peach in down town SLO and had a curry and beer waiting for me!  It was good to see Fort again, he understood how I was feeling.