{"id":257,"date":"2017-04-26T20:35:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T03:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/?p=257"},"modified":"2017-07-26T09:14:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T16:14:57","slug":"lompoc-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/lompoc-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Lompoc, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"

(written offline) I woke at 4:17 am, and went back to sleep for a while. When I got up two hours later, none of my neighbors were up, yet<\/p>\n

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I boiled water for some morning Nescafe, had some dry salami, used the bathroom, dried out the tarp. The mosquitoes were biting. By 8, everything was packed up, and I headed out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the early morning part of the ride I passed migrant workers picking strawberries. They really hustle! I saw them jogging down the furrows with boxes. Maybe they’re paid by the pound? I tried to take a picture, but my camera batteries had died. Maybe I wasn’t meant to take a picture.<\/p>\n

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I stopped at Esperanza Market in Guadalupe. Great prices, only $3 for a coco popsicle, bag of iso peanuts, and 3 bananas. (this picture was taken with my cell phone) There was also a taqueria attached to the store, but it was only 9:40 am, so I wasn’t ready for lunch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This picture is for you, Steve Young. I couldn’t find the library in Guadalupe, so went forward to Orcutt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Orcutt had an astounding array of food choices, including the Japanese Restaurant, Niya. Salmon bento box, $8.99<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Now here’s a roadkill you don’t see every day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lompoc awaits in the distance. I just need to get over those hills.\u00a0 It’s worse than it looks in a picture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It was an arduous climb in my condition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I had to stop multiple times on this hill, even using the granny gear. But I did not need to walk. That’s improvement. This picture was taken at my 5th and final stop. The summit was actually just around the corner, I just didn’t know it.\u00a0 Again, a picture doesn’t capture the feeling of a steep climb.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once over the summit, it was a fast but not perilous descent into Lompoc. Lompoc is a large town, so I got freeze dried meals and insect repellant at the Big 5. My devices needed charging, so I went to the local libary at 4, and plugged them in until 6 (see previous post).<\/p>\n

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The River Campground at Lompoc. I would have liked this site for its proximity to the bathroom, but there were too many gopher holes,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Someone kindly left some firewood in the tent area. I put some wood into my fire ring, but didn’t light it. Too much trouble.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The campground was actually mostly for RV’s. There were about 50 of them there, I would say, while I was the lone tent camper in a separate area. By the time I got there, everyone had retreated into their RV’s, so there was no socializing.<\/p>\n

Miles: 45 (estimate)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(written offline) I woke at 4:17 am, and went back to sleep for a while. When I got up two hours later, none of my neighbors were up, yet In the early morning part of the ride I passed migrant workers picking strawberries. They really hustle! I saw them jogging down the furrows with boxes. … Continue reading Lompoc, CA<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}