Today's ride is not one that I would plan. However, it had a bit of everything, starting in beautiful sunshine and in the 50's and with me taking a wrong turn out of the campground. That added 5 extra miles through white fenced range land. Cattle were seen grazing outside the fences. Upon rejoining the route I entered Interstate 8 going east and uphill. We stopped at a vista point at 3000 feet above sea level and could see the Pacific Ocean (pictured above) almost 40 miles away. Winds were gusting crossways and into our faces at 15-25 mph. We learned that you could keep a bicycle upright at only 4 mph. Pictured above in the lower right are three flags fully extended in front of a Border Patrol station.
We left I-8 and returned to US 80 which climbed almost continuously parallel to the Interstate. We did have two nice downhill runs but most of our day was a slow uphill climb to almost 5000 ft. We did have a nice stop for coffee and pastries in the cute town of Pine Valley.
The day ended fairly early and with a shuttle back to the campground near Alpine. We will stay overnight here again before being reshuttled in the morning back to Oak Springs to start tomorrow.
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