{"id":280,"date":"2017-04-28T20:31:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T03:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/?p=280"},"modified":"2022-01-20T07:24:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T15:24:56","slug":"carpinteria-state-beach-park-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/carpinteria-state-beach-park-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Carpinteria State Beach Park, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"UCSB\"
Wait, where am I?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"breakfast
A student-sized (=BIG) breakfast for about $7.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"bike
There was a lot of bike path today. Not too exciting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"sewage
But don’t drink the water in the creek.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Santa Barbara was too boutique for me. One place I did stop was State Street Coffee, where I met “Christian,” a cyclist out for a shorter ride. Originally from New York and Hollywood, he said exercise makes him feel better mentally.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"big
This is a landmark I generally only see from the freeway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"public
Carpinteria (accent on the last syllable) was more my kind of town.  Especially since there were public restrooms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I spent a couple hours at the local library recharging and blogging. There, I met Elizabeth (English accent?) and Denise (grew up in Oxnard). Denise warned about all the crime in Oxnard.<\/p>\n

\"Chase
But big enough to have a branch where I could replenish cash.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The campground was only a couple miles away, so I could get more than my normal food at the local Albertson’s (Safeway), and just strap the bag to my rear rack.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

King’s Hawaiian Bread rolls were on sale for 88 cents a pack. Hopefully those would work better than bagels as trail starch. I got two pastries from the bakery, a half-dozen chicken wings – I like the ones that have been under a heat lamp for a long time. Not only are they better well-done, they’re lighter – and a wedge salad plus kale and other items from the salad bar. I ate the salad on the spot.<\/p>\n

Not only was the campground nearby, but the hike and bike area was right near the entrance. Lots of people staying there, and I was not entirely sure that they had all paid.<\/p>\n

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Raccoon warnings, so I put my food in the locker. Also left a card there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Matt
This is Matt, a cyclist going the exact opposite way from me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Matt’s channel on YouTube is “Matt Guz”. Check out his videos. He’s from Texas, and started from Arizona, crossing the desert, then headed north along the Pacific Coast Trail. He had a lot of good advice on the road ahead. Matt is 50 days into his semi-nomadic trek. He finds work for a few weeks, gets some money, then moves on. His next gig is working at a hostel in SLO. He’s traveling heavy by my standards. His goal was to get to Lompoc the next day, something that took me 2 days.<\/p>\n

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Kent and Alesha were wandering on their last “hippie-cation” before settling down, possibly around San Luis Obispo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While talking to Alesha and Kent, I noticed a small pocket Bible on the table. They said they were both Christians like me, and that they prayed a lot, and would pray for me. I will return the favor. Alesha: I sent the full resolution picture to your email.<\/p>\n

I also met Porter, a man from Missouri visiting this area for 10 days. No picture of him, sorry. He said that his tent got stolen in Malibu, and he replaced it with a cheap one.<\/p>\n

There were more people I met at the campground, and I’ll talk about them in the next post.<\/p>\n

Gopher holes were abundant. I pitched my tent on ground with a natural depression in the middle, for a more comfortable sleep.<\/p>\n

Miles for the day, just 38.6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent a couple hours at the local library recharging and blogging. There, I met Elizabeth (English accent?) and Denise (grew up in Oxnard). Denise warned about all the crime in Oxnard. King’s Hawaiian Bread rolls were on sale for 88 cents a pack. Hopefully those would work better than bagels as trail starch. I … Continue reading Carpinteria State Beach Park, 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":[17,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"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=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}