Leucadia

yesterdaty peter, dale and i biked from hollywood to dana point. i thought would be about 70 miles, but it ended up being 90 miles. by the end of the day i wasn't in the best mood either because we haven't been sleeping that much. anyways, we got to the campground and the guy at the gate told us that there wasn't room for all of us at the hike and bike. i was like, "look, it's totally dark, and we've just biked 90 miles. what do you suggest that we do?" and he was like, "I don't know but you can't stay here." so peter and dale stayed in the hike and bike, and i ended up just putting my tent up on the beach. It was not the best day.
But then today, Peter and I had am amazing, awesome day. we only had to go 30 miles from dana point to encinitas, but we got totally side tracked and didn't even make it to encinitas. right now we're in Leucadia because this really awesome guy Steve saw us biking along and invited us in for dinner.

This is a picture of him and his wife Brenda. They made us a great dinner of pasta and we had ice cream for dessert. it was my third ice cream of the day. Steve showed us all this cool stuff on google earth, was full of advice about biking south of here, and even burned a cd of my pictures and is going to mail it to my parents. so awesome. thank you Steve and Brenda.
So then earlier today, peter and i were talking about stuff we might want to take down to mexico with us. Peter still has these really crappy sit ultegra shifters on his bike, and he wanted to change them over to friction. the first shop we tried was too busy, but then at the next shop, they guy was like, "well, i'm too busy, but i'll give you the stuff, and you can do it. i'll help you if you need it." he was super. super awesome! Here is a picture of him (chuck) and his friend Chris.

Peter kept being like, "this is too great a challenge!" but after three hours, he had totally switched out the sit ultegra shifters to the bar end friction shifters. It was a little insane though because peter and i pretty much eat constantly. and that was three hours without eating, so we felt totally nuts by the end of it. Chuck recommended this place next door called Angelo's that had $3 veggie burgers, and we totally scarfed those down. while we were eating, i noticed that for only $5.60 you could get 2 eggs, 2 pancakes, 2 ham, 2 bacon, hashbrowns, and toast. we almost camped behind angelo's, but we figured we should keep riding. Oh, Chuck wanted me to mention that he felt very validated that we'd both chosen to switch from sti to friction shifters. he is a big fan of friction shifters because they never need to be adjusted. ok, hope everyone is good. Probably in like 2 days i'll be in mexico!
-jessie