I woke up to a hum. It sounded like a motorcycle. I opened
my eyes and much to my surprise, there was a hummingbird in our truck. He was
buzzing back and forth by our headlamps. I am assuming the little guy thought
out headlamps were flowers. They are bright colours, so I guess they looked
appealing. It was a nice way to wake up actually – something that doesn’t
happen every day!
We didn’t bother making breakfast, we just packed up and
drove from Mt Charleston to Las Vegas to get our bikes out of storage. We had a
thought that we would bike some trails up on the Mt Charleston area, but once
we got back down to Las Vegas, into the stupid heat, we decided to high-tail it
to California. With a quick stop to Smith’s for a coffee, food and Internet, we
planned the day.
San Diego is the destination; actually, it’s the mountains
close to San Diego. We scoped out of great bike trails around the area and we
wanna do it! It’s called Cleveland National Park – in Laguna California. We are going to camp and bike for two days.
The day seemed long. We were driving for at least 7 hours. It
was neat to see the changer of landscape, from desert to alpine forests. The
temperature was also a lot cooler. It felt like to be in +28 weather and able
to have the windows open. It felt a little more humid too, as we were getting
closer and closer to the ocean.
We didn’t roll into our campsite ‘till around 8pm, and it
was already getting dark. To make matters worse, we were both starving and
starting to get grumpy. We pulled into campsite number 70, paid our $20 fee and
started to make dinner. Everything was going smoothly, until the propane didn’t
work… we had to resort to our little MSR stove to make pasta. I opted out of
eating rice, because it would take way too long. So, I had a crap dinner of
chicken, rice cakes and hummus. Blech. We curled up in the tent, and enjoyed
the cooler weather. I fell asleep to the sound of wind. It was very blustery
all throughout the night. It woke me up a couple times, as it blew down our fly
at the back of the tent. I fixed it around 4am. Ben, of course, slept soundly.
R&B
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