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Buellton, Hwy 1, Hwy 101, Home: 81 miles

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Mar 162014
 

Tom was lead­ing one of his AIDS/LifeCycle train­ing rides today. At 7:30 he, his co-leader Robert, rid­er Jen and I met at his house, loaded the bikes and all the gear into and onto the Vol­vo and head­ed out for Ellen’s Dan­ish Pan­cakes in Buell­ton. Arriv­ing Robert and I went imme­di­ate­ly inside for break­fast along with a nice chat.

Nine o’clock and all set to go we all rode off, out San­ta Rosa Road to Hwy 1, then south on 1. Near­ing Hwy 101 I left the oth­er rid­ers to con­tin­ue their loop ride back to Solvang and on to Buell­ton while I cruised down the coast home to Carpin­te­ria, 81 miles for the day. My most in qui­et a while. A won­der­ful, warm to hot day. Per­fect rid­ing weath­er for me.

A gallery of some shots from our ride is seen above. Click on any one to see an enlarged ver­sion after which you can left­side and right­side click to view the rest.

 Posted by at 5:22 pm

SB for breakfast, Ventura for lunch, then back home to achieve my most miles in a January

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Jan 312014
 

Through yes­ter­day I had accu­mu­lat­ed 421 miles for the month of Jan­u­ary, my sec­ond high­est num­ber of miles in any Jan­u­ary after the 478 miles in 2003. Today I was going to dri­ve down to Los Ange­les to vis­it friend Car­ol so was set­tled on 421 for the month. But ANON! Car­ol was not feel­ing chip­per so asked that I come down Sat­ur­day instead. What to do with my now “free day”. Bin­go, I’ll ride 60 miles and set a new per­son­al high for Jan­u­ary. So off I ped­al to San­ta Bar­bara for some banana/wheatgerm pan­cakes at the East Beach Grill where I decide that rid­ing down to Ven­tu­ra for lunch and then home would accu­mu­late the miles I sought. It was a nice 60 miles with lots of won­der­ful views, inter­ac­tions, and contemplations.

Note: I con­tin­ue hav­ing a prob­lem with my new slideshow tech­nique. The orig­i­nal slideshow lays on top of my new one. So for now please click any­where out­side the ini­tial image pre­sent­ed to remove the old ver­sion and allow my new one to get cen­ter stage, thanks.

 Posted by at 2:25 pm

Drive to Ventura — Ride to Boccali’s for Lunch

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Jan 242014
 

I’ve been get­ting a lit­tle bored rid­ing the same old routes from home so today drove the bike down to Ven­tu­ra to ride the nice Ojai Val­ley Bike Trail into and through Ojai two miles for a great lunch at Boc­cal­i’s. Return­ing to Main Street I rode on down to the won­der­ful Ven­tu­ra ocean prom­e­nade where I joined a large crowd watch­ing the expert surfers in the high, 12–15 foot, waves before return­ing to the Vol­vo after a nice 37 mile out­ing. Click on any of these thumb­nails to view large images (com­plete with mean­ing­ful comments).

I am cur­rent­ly hav­ing a prob­lem with my new slideshow tech­nique. The orig­i­nal slideshow lays on top of my new one. So for now please click any­where out­side the ini­tial image pre­sented to remove the old ver­sion and allow my new one to get cen­ter stage, thanks.

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A wonderful walk on the Sedgewick Reserve

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Jan 112014
 

Friend Car­la invit­ed me to join her on the month­ly pub­lic hike on the Sedgewick Reserve. We were all set to leave with the mod­er­ate lev­el hike group when the leader heav­i­ly cau­tioned any of is with­out lugged soles to not come on his route. So we moved over to the easy group and had a very inter­est­ing expe­ri­ence. A very nice feel­ing of being way into the coun­try and curi­ous insight into how oth­ers lived and grew up.

 Posted by at 11:35 am

Should they have closed Camarillo St. Hospital??

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Dec 312013
 

A snip­pet of my Excel spead­sheet bike mileage is shown below rep­re­sent­ing lots of ped­al to the met­al (lit­er­al­ly). How I came to 2,727 miles for 2013 is a study in con­stant­ly reset­ting the car­rot being chased as well as lots of com­pul­sive bike rid­ing. The six instances of mov­ing the car­rot fur­ther and yet fur­ther out of reach are described forthwith.

  1. It’s the end of Sep­tem­ber and I am think­ing Yikes! You slack­er, you need to at least get over 2,000 miles for the year
  1. Crank­ing more in Octo­ber 2,000 miles seems a giv­en so I move the car­rot out to 200 miles/month. By Decem­ber I have 2,165 and the weath­er demands get­ting out, so out I go (and go and go and …)
  1. I hit 2,400 miles on 12/15 with 235 for the month and the car­rot slides to 406/month, the most miles in a 2013 month
  1. A Christ­mas day ride moves me to 401 miles so the car­rot shifts to 456 to be my sec­ond largest total for a December
  1. Box­ing Day and 53 more miles brings me to 453 miles so the car­rot jumps again, to 556, the most in 9.5 years as well as the most post heart attack. I also notice that I’m near­ing the 2010 total of 2,725 so the car­rot jumps over to that col­umn to accom­plish both goals. Why not?
  • After a ride on 12/30 I’m at 538 miles so need only 23 miles to reach 2,726 for the year as well as the most in a month in 9.5 years
  • 12/31/2013 — last chance for miles this year and I have a long 10:30 appoint­ment in San­ta Bar­bara so I jump up and take an ear­ly ride to SB for break­fast and care­ful­ly log 24 miles to total 2,727 miles for the year (looks nicer and more bal­anced than 2,726 no?) and 562 for the month, the high­est total since July of 2006

  • Ah, but tomor­row is anoth­er day, anoth­er month, anoth­er year 🙂
  • Hap­py and safe rid­ing to all in 2014!
 Posted by at 9:45 am

$1.10 for 52 miles of sun and fun, such a deal

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Dec 262013
 


I took the 9:10 21X bus (X for eXpress) from Carpin­te­ria to San­ta Bar­bara this morn­ing then 10 min­utes lat­er was on the 12X head­ing to Gole­ta. This 25 miles cost me 55 cents and placed me right in down­town Gole­ta at 10:15.
I rode out Cathe­dral Oaks to it’s end then took the 101 to the Gavio­ta Tun­nel. With some stops and explor­ing I returned to the Camino Real Mar­ket­place, had a late lunch at the Kahu­na Grill, then reversed the 12X -> 21X for anoth­er 55 cents to arrive home at 5:15 PM. What a nice and cheap adventure.
Click on the mon­tage above for a few shots of my day.

 Posted by at 5:15 pm

Christmas Eve ride to Ventura on the OLD roads

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Dec 242013
 

I rode down to Ven­tu­ra for lunch today with the goal of find­ing the con­trac­tor imprints in the sec­tion of the old high­way that is still pre­served through Emma Wood State Beach. Sure enough I found 6 or 7 of them and took a shot of one of the bet­ter pre­served ones. It was an amaz­ing day with tem­per­a­tures in the mid 70’s and high surf draw­ing out scads of surfers as well as oth­er folks to enjoy it. Click on the mon­tage to start an eight image slideshow of my outing.

 Posted by at 3:11 pm

Ashe with his Samsonite at the beach

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Jul 242013
 

Here I am at the Ven­tu­ra beach using the small Samsonite 

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Here I am at the Ven­tu­ra beach using the small Sam­sonite Eric gave me

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 Posted by at 9:25 am

A sunrise hike to Inspiration Point on the Winter Soltice

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Dec 212012
 

Friend Christy includ­ed me in her annu­al Win­ter Sol­stice hike this morn­ing. Sev­en of us met at the end of Tun­nel Road short­ly after six for a hike to a secret spot of Christy’s near Inspi­ra­tion Point. It was won­der­ful walk­ing along as the day com­menced and the light unfold­ed. We arrived at our des­ti­na­tion in time to see the sun crest the moun­tain and there­after share some wish­es for the new year while drink­ing the warm Ore­gon Chai Christy had packed up the hill.

Click on the image above for some larg­er shots of our out­ing. Thanks Christy and friends for a love­ly start to the return of the light.

 Posted by at 7:02 am
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