I rode down to the East Beach Grill and met Car­ol C. for pan­cakes, hers with blue­ber­ries inside, mine with bananas. We brought along our own Trad­er Joe’s dark real maple syrup to com­ple­ment the yum­my ‘cakes. We were hav­ing such a good time no record­ed images of the event were tak­en. After break­fast I rode down through Carpin­te­ria and along the beau­ti­ful Rin­con Park­way, decid­ing to turn around after 27 miles right here at a nice surf­ing spot.

Sev­er­al of the folks camp­ing along the Park­way have cre­at­ed some very fun rock sculptures.

On the way home I picked up some water to mix with my pow­dered Gatorade at the nice foun­tain adjoin­ing the Rin­con fire sta­tion (left), stopped for an inter­est­ing shot of an oil pump­jack (I just learned this word from WikiPedia), then encoun­tered a slight block­ing of the bike path 1/2 mile fur­ther along.

Back up the rise from Bates Road to the Hwy. 150 over­pass I’m all set to cruise back thru Carpin­te­ria and on to Sum­mer­land for a deli­cious turkey burg­er at Stack­ys. (I wish I could keep remem­ber­ing to keep my fin­gers away from the iPhone’s lens, note fin­ger in upper left cor­ner of image).

A final stop at Tom’s office for a nice leisure­ly vis­it and it was home and into the cap­sule to pre­pare this entry. A won­der­ful post birth­day day.