Since the open­ing of the new ocean side bike­way from the Rin­con to 1/2 mile south of Mus­sel Shoals there have been signs on the old road/bikeway dis­cour­ag­ing our rid­ing there (see the last image below). Dri­ving by in the last week I noticed a large new park­ing lot at the end of the old road and fig­ured there must be a tun­nel some­where near it or why all the parking?

So on this morn­ing’s ride to Ven­tu­ra I poked around and found the tun­nel. It is just below the first beach access point south of Mus­sel Shoals off the bike­way. As I was think­ing, there were no signs of dis­cour­age­ment on the route I had cho­sen. You can see a visu­al sto­ry of my fun explor­ing with com­men­tary by click­ing on any of these pho­tos then “slid­ing” through them.

Up ear­ly, over to the Cow Palace, Open­ing Cer­e­monies, then Tom rid­ing off for the 545 miles to Los Ange­les. Click on the images for a larg­er size with descrip­tion. Hit­ting the ESCape key returns here

This morn­ing I rode up to west beach to see Ralph on his birth­day and watch him as he ran the “Res­o­lu­tion Day 5k” race. What an effort and what an accom­plish­ment. Lots of shots of his progress around the course. Click on any to see the larg­er ver­sion after which you can move with­in them using your mouse or keyboard.