Leaving the Veterans Memorial Park I started cycling to Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park. Concentrating on the cycling I'd not a lot to write about today. By Arthurrh - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2775859 Cycling to Pfeiffer Big Sur (Blog post written October 26 2009 - Part of my bicycle tour Alaska to Argentina) Another exit from a city cycling … [Read more...]

Warmshowers is a great hospitality network for cyclists. In Guadalupe, I stayed with my host Anne on my way through to the Mexican border. Leaving Morro Bay I started the day as a good Samaritan, by giving some transient type fella who had turned up at the campground overnight my spare tyre, as his had burst. I’ve been carrying it around since the beginning of the trip, and not taken the best … [Read more...]

A short update on this day of the bike tour from Alaska to Argentina. Today, I cycled from San Simeon to Morro Bay. Cycling to Morro Bay (Blog post written October 25 2009 - Cycling from Alaska to Argentina) Continuing my bike tour through California, I'd spent the previous night in San Simeon. A bit of a late getaway, which meant cycling when the day was hotter - and boy was it hot! I had … [Read more...]

During this day of cycling between Pfeiffer Big Sur and San Simeon I met up with a bunch of other cyclists cycling the Pacific Coast Highway. Cycling to San Simeon Over the last few days, I’ve been crossing paths with a few other cyclists with similar itineraries for this section of the Pacific Coast Highway, so we arranged to meet up at the end of the day. The coastline was simply … [Read more...]

Avoiding the interstate highway, I cycled from New Brighton to Veterans Memorial Park in one day as part of my bike ride from Alaska to Argentina. Leaving New Brighton It was a little misty in the morning, which isn’t usually a problem, but today I had to navigate over 30 miles of back lanes to avoid the interstate (motorway). Obviously, my cause would have been aided by some sort of map, … [Read more...]