And the Adventures Begin!

  So here we are, starting our new way of living and our new way of traveling on the coolest machines known to man!  We began Wednesday's 35 mile jaunt with a nice send-off from Jesse's parents, then continued through North County San Diego.  Camp Pendelton ended up being a pretty ride-through after being gently re-directed by the nicest (and only) military police I've met (thanks guys, we would have ended up a looong way off track without you).

 We spent the night at a campsite in San Clemente State Beach, after some finagling with the camp head.  Turns out having awesome bikes packed to the max makes us look a lot more "legit" in the words of the supervisor.  

Yesterday we finished our first long-distance push of the journey through Laguna and Newport Beach, then inland to Orange via the 'mighty' Santa Ana River trail: 42 miles to Katie's parents'.  We have been incredibly lucky having cloudy and foggy days to cool us off on our rides, even a little spritz of water from the sky.  Even better fortune was the rain that waited until 5 minutes after we made it in to the house to begin in earnest.  Now for a few days of R&R and music to rejuvenate us for the next long push: Hermosa Beach!