Lompoc to
Ventura! 85.5 miles. What a beautiful day! We had to wait at this bridge until some road up ahead got blocked off for us to cross
safely. We road down the 101 hwy a lot today. My dream come true! It was kinda freaky but so fun. I've always wanted to ride on the freeway!!
Look at the all the bikers stacked in line! (picture below) They curve around the corner.
I think this is the first rest stop of the day. Ocean side view.
Below: Where is that man riding to?......
Santa
Barbara's Paradise Pit! The community comes out to give us FREE ice cream!!!!
Nice volunteer man from
Santa Barbara serving free ice cream! vanilla, chocolate... i don't remember the rest. probably chocolate chip. There were also free cookies-
home baked?
Content with the delicious ice cream on this warm day, we leave the pit stop and continue down the coast to the next rest stop, singing and laughing because....its' just another day in paradise.
Eating
again. Almost as good as ice cream. Rest stop food consisted of bananas, peanut butter, gram cracker with
Pb&j, CLIFF BARS--- which is what I ate all week mostly, other bars like protein bars and granola bars, power aid, water, hard candy.
This rest stop was themed Boogie days. I didn't take enough pictures of the dressed up volunteers!!! but you can go look at
aidslifecycle.org to find more pictures that other people took.
More riding along the ocean! We rode right into rest stop 4, the last rest stop before camp. Everyday there are 4 rest stops and lunch.
This theme was Hollywood. We got to dance with the stars. There is Amelia, Lisa, and Ashleigh.
hot (gay-
whyyyy??) glittery man
Ashleigh. Did I tell you how we met her? Well, she is from New Jersey and she is a yoga instructor, and signed up to do the ride by herself. She gave Shauna and I a ride to the BART station after Orientation day, and then
miraculously we found her in the see of 3000 people on Sunday morning/day 1! AND we all (
lisa,
amelia,
ahsleigh, and I) rode at the same pace! craziness.
This is Shauna and my tent.
There was a candle lit vigil this night. Everyone got a candle. We walked out to the beach and formed a large circle of silence.
The circle was HUGE! all those little lites that look like city lights are actually people holding their flame.
Some people dressed up as brides it looked like, walked around the circle with lantern. We all got up and walked to the ocean to put out the candles with the ocean foam or water. We were riding for this. For all the people that everyone was thinking about during this vigil.
Eating again. Almost as good as ice cream. Rest stop food consisted of bananas, peanut butter, gram cracker with Pb&j, CLIFF BARS--- which is what I ate all week mostly, other bars like protein bars and granola bars, power aid, water, hard candy.
This rest stop was themed Boogie days. I didn't take enough pictures of the dressed up volunteers!!! but you can go look at aidslifecycle.org to find more pictures that other people took.
More riding along the ocean! We rode right into rest stop 4, the last rest stop before camp. Everyday there are 4 rest stops and lunch.
This theme was Hollywood. We got to dance with the stars. There is Amelia, Lisa, and Ashleigh.
hot (gay-whyyyy??) glittery man
Ashleigh. Did I tell you how we met her? Well, she is from New Jersey and she is a yoga instructor, and signed up to do the ride by herself. She gave Shauna and I a ride to the BART station after Orientation day, and then miraculously we found her in the see of 3000 people on Sunday morning/day 1! AND we all (lisa, amelia, ahsleigh, and I) rode at the same pace! craziness.
There was a candle lit vigil this night. Everyone got a candle. We walked out to the beach and formed a large circle of silence.
The circle was HUGE! all those little lites that look like city lights are actually people holding their flame.
Some people dressed up as brides it looked like, walked around the circle with lantern. We all got up and walked to the ocean to put out the candles with the ocean foam or water. We were riding for this. For all the people that everyone was thinking about during this vigil.
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