I start­ed out from the house think­ing I would just ride out to UCSB, buy a sea­son pass for soc­cer, and return home. But it was such a nice, warm day I decid­ed to head up 101 into the coun­try a bit, think­ing maybe the Gavio­ta rest stop. But when I arrived at the turn into Tajiguas and saw the sign that I still had 7 miles to go to the rest stop and real­ized that I was already hun­gry and anoth­er 14 miles was not the best choice I rode in, took a shot of the Tajiguas sign and anoth­er up toward the canyon land­fill, then crossed to south­bound 101 and head­ed for the Kahu­na Grill near Costco.

After my over­due lunch in the Kahu­na I road over to the Inter­col­le­giate Ath­let­ic Build­ing (cool title, eh?), bought my soc­cer pass, rode by the UCEN and had a nice vis­it with Cyn­thia, then rode home and imme­di­ate­ly con­sumed 32 ounces of Pow­erAide that Eric had giv­en me in Col­orado. Thank you Eric, per­fect timing.

Shots above: 1.) Look­ing up Refu­gio Road from the 101 bridge 2.) the Tajiguas entry sign 3.) an hour and 45 min­utes lat­er on the oth­er, south­bound side of the Refu­gio bridge now look­ing over Refu­gio State Beach and the Pacif­ic Ocean 4.) the UCSB lagoon on the way to Cyn­thi­a’s office.

Click on the four shot mon­tage to view one con­tain­ing eight.

A mon­tage of my won­der­ful bicy­cling and birth­day month. Start­ing in the upper left: Olympia, Washin­gon — Seat­tle, Wash­ing­ton (a nice day of rid­ing with Scott) — Bend, Ore­gon and envi­rons — Chico, Cal­i­for­nia and near­by grain ele­va­tor — some around the world cycle tourists Quan and I met and vis­it­ed with as they passed through San­ta Bar­bara — Tom and I on one of our Sun­day morn­ing rides, my bike along the Rin­con — a stop at Lane Farms for Straw­ber­ries — cool Bud­da in Sum­mer­land — a stop at the end of wharf — Stack­y’s for a Fies­ta wrap (a reg­u­lar lunch des­ti­na­tion) — at the “end” of Gole­ta stop­ping for a recent­ly pur­chased Star­buck­’s reduced fat turkey McSand­wich and O.J. (A larg­er mon­tage can be viewed by click­ing on the one above)