As we did last year Cyn­thia and I drove up ear­ly for the San Luis Obis­po Bike Club’s annu­al Light­house Bicy­cle ride. This year there was a new start­ing point in Mor­ro Bay at the high school. We arrived in the midst of lots of oth­ers get­ting set and rid­ing off so we felt right in the mix. It was a brisk morn­ing with some clouds and fog, a nice start to the day.

SLO BC had lots of food/rest stops and the new route allowed us to get far enough north to pass and see the ride’s name­sake light­house as well as Cam­bria, Hearst Cas­tle & Beach, the ele­phant seal rook­ery, and the mag­nif­i­cent north coast of SLO Coun­ty. The weath­er, scenery and vis­its with oth­er bik­ers and sup­port staff made for a great day of rid­ing. It was a cap­i­tal out­ing. I thought we’d be rid­ing around 60 miles today but I end­ed up with 74, which felt fine.

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I rode my bike out to Car­ol’s then we rode over to the UCEN for a won­der­ful vis­it and lunch with Cyn­thia. Right out­side Cyn­thi­a’s office is a row of six old audi­to­ri­um chairs which prompt­ed me to coerce my com­pan­ions into a few iPhone shots (shoul­da cleaned the dirt off the lens first). Click on our hap­py selves to see a big­ger ver­sion of us.