It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best since you have to sweat up hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate rememberance of a country you have driven throgh as you gain by riding a bicycle


Ernest Hemingway




Monday, 30 May 2011

California ( dreaming, cation etc)

27 May: Gold Coast to Elk Prairie Nat Pk (90 miles)

Had a non riding day yesterday, much needed, skyped ju, sat around in boxers watching HBO and eating fruit and veg ( decided got to stop eating like a 12 year old at the cinema). Good move as weather yesterday was v bad . Brighter skies this morning and less wind, couple of landmarks, entered California and clocked 1000 miles , woo hoo ! . Coastline stunning this am




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And good to be in California , went through the giant redwood forest, big, really big trees, oldest living things on earth apparently, quite eerie cycling through them alone for miles, bit Tolkien like ( my precious) . All v impressive, obviously not a patch on the 50ft talking man and his blue ox that I came across a little later. Marajuana is legal for medical purposes in the state of California btw.




Now in state park, only one in the hiker/biker area so food stored in the bear box ( didn't think they had them in California , then saw state symbol)



Highlight of the day: Staring up at cathedral canopy of thousand year old trees, good to feel small sometimes.

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