In my younger days, Stewart Lee and I went from Morro Bay to Lompoc as a 1-day segment. San Luis Obispo to Lompoc is less distance, but I am not confident enough to do the 60 miles in one shot. Unfortunately, I can’t break it up into two 30-mile days because there is a 45-mile stretch with no camping or motels between this Oceano Beach and Lompoc. And moreover, there’s this thing called the Harris Grade before Lompoc. I don’t like that word, Grade. So I took a short day today, only 15.7 miles. It was less than an hour and a half of riding.
The meant that I got to have a leisurely morning at Linda’s house, working on this blog. Linda got back from her morning run at 7:15, and made me some breakfast.
At first, I had gone to the Oceano Dunes campsites, but at the gate they told me it was 2 miles over sand to get to the campsites. Camping on sand would have been okay, but access over sand, no thanks. It’s an ATV area, that’s probably why. So I went further down to the Oceano Campground, which was actually in Pismo Beach, not Oceano. $25, since they didn’t have hiker/biker sites. Fine. Nice place.
I decided to eat my freeze-dried meal again, rather than bother to bike out to a restaurant in town. This has been a good day.
Miles: 15 (estimated, didn’t record)
Written offline in my tent at Oceano Campground. Uploading from Orcutt public library. Lompoc is 15 miles away, but I have 2 more climbs, including Harris Grade Rd. Lunch first.
How does de-chlorinating the water work? If you leave it out does it just evaporate eventually? Or do they put something in it?
They just let it air out, and it becomes like bottled water. A lot of things in their house are low-resource. They dump their wash water on the plants like us.