San Diego - American Goal Line

Our last day of riding into an American Campground was a beautiful one.  We started out in an urban scene with some wild, but brief, hills to get onto the bike path.  The roads took us past the most beautiful beaches I've seen in the US yet - in that I saw my first American bikini clad beach babes.  Finally!  Wow. We stopped for lunch at the boardwalk and enjoyed the view.  :)
There were a few bridges to cross, but given that we had a couch with a fellow named Giri arranged for the evening, we resolved to stay by San Diego bay at the restaurants and shops for a drink.  Yum!

Erin with a 32 oz Margarita on the San Diego Boardwalk (we shared)

The area was nice, lots of little shops including a sock shop, a hot sauce shop, and a fudge store.  Tempting!  Could really use some socks.  :P
We left around 3:30 to trek towards our couch for the night and found ourselves going through downtown. It was great watching all the costumed downtowners while cycling through.  We had a few rolling hills and a surprising distance to go but within a couple hours we were very close.  Giri's house is on the side of a very steep valley so that presented some challenges in getting there.

Giri's house was amazing!  His two goats were very sweet, and the milk even sweeter.  We got our own rooms (wow!  Thanks!), made curry together, and met his two cute children and wife, Uma.  i noticed in the morning of the ride that my tire was going low, and discovered during repair that I had picked up a nail.  Oops!  Still, as our groups only flat, the Schwalbe tires 3 of us have, and the Armadillo tire Erin has all have proved quite excellent.

We learned that Bryan's parents had stopped by and were shortly in touch with them  to take a drive to Phoenix for a week off of our cycling adventure.  Wow!  What a treat!  Fun in the sun poolside?  Sounds good!  :)

Helicopters over our camp the previous evening at camp in San Elijo.