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OK, today's bike ride isn't really worth to blog about since it was just a ride with my daughter to the next town for lunch and back. Yet still it brought something interesting that seems to be a trend: weird small town bars.  See our Katy Trail blog entry (yet to be written ... I promise it will happen ... I just don't know when) of the bar with the deer butt and the pile of naked barbie dolls. I'm glad I'm not this apple. On the ten mile ride to the neighboring town a topless cyclist was passing us and naturally my six year old daughter was asking about it.  So the conversation ended with why women couldn't go topless in our society while some societies don't have an issue with it and for others it's even tabu for women to show their faces in public.  So of course it's natural that Sports Illustrated: The Making of Swimsuit 2013 was running on the big screen TV at the bar where we eat lunch.  I must say they were visiting some cool locati...

Work took me to Newport Beach, CA and I got the opportunity to ride the Pacific coast once more.  This time I was able to include a more remote portion of the coast, the Big Sur region.  In six days I rode 400 miles from Monterey to Newport Beach. Pacific, Brompton, Highway 1 and I The usual drill of arriving by plane involved this time taking a rental car to the hotel, dropping off everything besides the necessaries for the cycle tour, stopping by REI to grab a camping fuel canister and then driving up to the Monterey airport where I would be dropping of the rental car. It took forever to drive just to drive through LA.  Then in the valley I was stuck in a traffic jam for hours because a truck just burned out and there was no way around it.  So I got to ride from the Monterey airport to the Veterans Memorial Park campsite in the dark. Luckily the built-in lights on the Brompton are nice and bright so this wasn't an issue.  That the hiker/biker campsite i...