Day 38 – Santa Monica – 105 km
Day 39 – Huntington Beach – 88 km
Two big days of riding, although today – through LA – was made considerably easier by the extent of beachside cycle paths in this city. The ride between Ventura and Santa Monica was tough, with a long stretch of highway and no place to eat – or to replenish water bottles – until Malibu. We were exhausted by the time we got to Santa Monica and then had to find our way through massive Friday night crowds to the SM hostel.
We’re in a motel for the night here in HB and I expect I’ll need 10 hours of sleep to feel ready for tomorrow. Only two more days… I’m too tired to think about how I feel re that.
Some photos of the past few days in place of further reflection.
I’m so enjoying your posts of this adventure; thinking of the bond between you. Precious. Wishing you a magnificent last day you’ll savour and regret.
Thanks Rebecca. I think you captured some of our feelings about completing this trek, although our experience at the Mexican border was somewhat short of “savoury”. There’s a massive shopping mall – with all usual, banal franchise operations – on the US side that “sours” the experience somewhat.
I’m torn between wanting to keep reading about your lovely adventure and wanting to see your lovely (tanned) faces. I’ll go for the latter. So proud of you guys and love you so much – and glad it’s almost done. But where will you go next time???
What an amazing adventure, thank you for sharing with us, made me feel like I was there with you all….safe travels home
Thank you, Chris. I’m glad you enjoyed following our journey. It’s been fun, damn hard, tiring, exhilarating, exhausting, rejuvenating… I could go on. Most of all, it’s been great meeting so many different types of people – Americans and travellers from around world – and rediscovering how basically similar we all are.