Pacific Coast Highway - Day 4 - Dana Point, CA
Date: June 16, 2016
62 Miles
Gorgeous weather and waking up in the backyard of some ultra-cool Warmshowers hosts is a good way to start the day (here’s to you Steve and Linda!) We jumped back on the bike path beachside but found ourselves moving to the interior of the city to get across both LA and Long Beach. It was a day of 90% city and 10% beach. The turns to get through Laguna Beach and Newport were struggles on a bike with cars zipping by. We got a chance to bike along the LA River, with all its concrete sadness. A pinch flat was repaired outside Dana Point where we pulled into the campground and saw the biggest waves of our whole trip. Serious surfers and SUPers flooded the ocean for much of the evening. We finally met some other tourists heading south as well. We ate dinner with Fred, a cyclist from Montreal. He’s finishing up his electric engineering degree and doing this for the summer. To finish, I’ll say my tan lines from the SoCal sun and lack of marine layer are ridiculous.
