Jana was up and gone by 6:00 something (she had to teach a class online at 3:00). Jana and I were a bit more leisurely. We had breakfast at the coffee shop/cafe next door to the hotel, and left Half Moon Bay at about 8:30.
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Ham and cheese croissant and a cherry pastry (I did have a banana and some hot chocolate in the hotel).
Riding the Coastal Path was great! |
We stayed on the Coastal path through Half Moon Bay State Park and to a road named Poplar. There were these cool two trees.
From there we had to get onto Hwy 1 for awhile. We were not following the SF Peninsula Travers route after yesterday’s trail debacle. We were not going to be duped twice!
We did meet up with the route, and rode up to Purismo Creek Trailhead. We had decided we would do that part, but not the other trail part.
The first part was really nice. We were even able to ride most of it! Then we came to the turn for Grabtown Gulch Trail. From there my Garmin said it was 3 miles with an average grade of 10%! Well, time for some hike-a-bike…
since I k ew I would likely be walking the entire thing, I just took off my helmet and hung it off the back. It was a long walk! I ended up being able to ride about 150 feet, and that was at the end of the trail. We still had more climbing on the road, but it was a measly 6% average grade.
In order to skip the second trail section, we headed over to Skyline Dr via a very steep road called Swett Rd. It was paved, and we still had to push our bikes up!
Fortunately, it wasn’t too long. We popped out to Skyline Dr. It wasn't all downhill, but it was more down than up. When we started the Purismo Creek Trail, we met a woman on her mountain bike (Jana met her too), who was very familiar with the area. She told us about Alice’s Restaurant at the intersection of Skyline and La Honda. She also recommended we take La Honda down to Palo Alto.
We stopped at Alice’s Restaurant and had a good meal.
From there it was a screaming good ride downhill. We decided to get to our hotel via Stanford campus. It was a little crazy, but after I fired up Google Maps voice directions, we finally arrived at our hotel. Jana was waiting for an old friend to pick her up for dinner.
Catherine and I went to the Hilton for a quick dinner. I didn’t want to walk too far as my left knee is kind of resembling what it looked like on the AT. See? I don’t really like hiking! It doesn’t really hurt, it’s just very swollen. There will be some more hiking tomorrow, but a bunch of flat miles at first.
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