By now, you may be thinking: "that Frank, every day he writes about the same distance, the same elevation gain, has a photo of some distant mountains and a picture of Trudy riding up some steep hill - the bum is probably sitting at home, making this stuff up!"
Not so!
We're sitting at a picnic table at Big Bear Lake right now, pecking away at our phones - 6000 ft elevation here, so 38 degrees tonight (long johns on already!), having a glass of wine...
We seem to be gaining 1000 ft or so every 10 miles, so we must be going downhill sometimes... The trouble is the downhills go by so quickly and the uphill so slowly! Sigh!
You may have also noticed that I started adding the date and day of the week. That's for me, thanks! It's all becoming sort of a blur... Get up, make breakfast, pack up, ride bike about 50 miles through beautiful countryside, meet interesting people, find place to stay, drink beer & eat bag of chips, set up camp & eat dinner, go to bed when it gets dark (read and/or blog), sleep, repeat. What a lifestyle!
Anyway, here's today!
We stayed last night in a hotel near Gregory Lake in Crestline. It was a really nice place with more pillows on the bed than there was bed.
The climb from the lake to the highway was a... No polite words...
Anyway, we got to our route and were scratching our heads because the highway signs seemed to point 3 directions... A local bike rider came to the rescue!
We rode along the "Rim of the World" highway and it was... Beautiful!
Here's the mountain range from above for the day... I have to say that now, when I see a road off in the distance to the south, I think I may be riding on it soon.
See that tiny white line? That's our road?
So, here's the road ahead - level or slightly downhill... Optimism prevails!
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