What a great spot we had last night to sleep and it feels soo good to have permission to be occupying such campsites. We met Gord again this morning…well we didnt meet him again, but we caught a glimpse of him scooting by on his scooter moped and heard the roar of that mighty engine putting up the slope to the road. With breakfast well done with and our things all tidy like, we pushed our really heavy bikes up the hill to the road as well, and waited for Calen…yes again, we waited for that boy…but all is well, we had to get water as well. we tried to find the jungle stream again, and Jay and I did, but when we filled one water bottle it was….hmm….yuck…and it looked really bad too. so we vetoed the water from that scummy stream and thought we would just keep cycling till we find a more suitable one. Once on the road the sun began to shine freely and the road got hotter and hotter and our throats were becoming rather parched and dry so we really started looking for some water. tadaa! we found some! it was still not 100% perfect, but it would do. and boy, did we ever need it… but we should have waited just like 3 min more, for when we rounded the next few corners, there was a glorious,clean, rushing river thing that prob was 100 times more perfect to drink than the stuff in our bottles.Too lazy to stop again and fill them up, we just kept on going. Especially cause we had climbed most of that particular hill, and we were now on the way down and it is just plain silly to stop momentum when one is flying down hills at 40 miles an hour…

We were totally out of food, so our next stop was a larger town called Cambria. It astounds me how fast the team can pedal down and up hills when we all know the longer we take to get to that town, the longer it will be for food. Once in Cambria, we stopped at a grocery store and stocked up on food-soo much food that we filled up a shopping cart, then ate almost all the food from it hehe- o yea, and we bought a large large thing o strawberries and ate almost the whole plastic thingy. about 1lb each. Just before leaving, some random guy came out of the store and gave us a whole gallon jug of sunny D to drink! he just gave it to us just like that! Calen and Jay were super stoked, and filled their bottles full of this pure sugar concetrate. After a great tummy fill, we then continued on our merry little way.

The roads were sooo superb. flat. straight. the wind on our tails. what more could we ask for? Sun! and sunny D! we made excellent time becuase we were able to cruise at like 40-45km/hr for a loooooong loooonng time. soo nice. o yea, some more sweet things to write about. as we were riding on this really flat road. to our right, right along the beach were like 150 huge, ginormous, and really really fat sea lions. they were all sleeping on the beach and it looked like they were dead. and the smell. it smelled like they were all dead too. garosss.

we were all so jolly at this point and i guess when Calen gets extra jolly, he bursts forth in song. His crazy, ridiculous, girly-voiced songs. Today’s specialty was ” I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts..deedlee dee” etc.. and on and on he went. Kinshasa and i tried to sneed a candid camera event, but he saw, and did not want to be seen singing it in front of the camera….next time….

Because we were riding soo fast, we were almost flying into San Luis Obispo (don’t ask me how to say it, i cannot) and just as we were about to enter the city… an old man rides up beside me and starts asking about the trip etc etc, then he rides up to Jay and asks where we are staying. Jay tells him we want to find a campsite or RV park or something for the night and the guy tells him that there is none…..uh oh….

but be of good cheer, for he helped us overcome this mountain. He-this man’s name was Ross- decided to phone his wife to see if we could just stay at their house!! whaaa!! soo amazing. She- this lady’s name is Debbie- said we could come, so we followed Ross through the town and to his humble abode in a nice quiet part of town.

They- Debbie and Ross- were going to go out for dinner, but first, they let us all have showers and clean up a bit before. oooo how glad were we? sooo happy! can you guess how many days it had been since our last one? 6 long stinky days. when we went into their house, we smelled soo bad it was embarrasing. but we smelled o so pretty when we came out! just like pears and flowers:D They took us into town as well, and dropped us off downtown while they went our for dinner. We on the other hand, smelt some delicious pizza cooking just across the road, so instead of being true black creekers and looking ofr the best deal, we were soo hungry we all instantly voted on pizza! we ordered 2 extra larges. they were extra large for sure, and soooooo yummy in our tummies. We ate it like barbarians, then after 10 min, we realized we didn’t have to eat that fast. we took about 3 intermissions during our meal so we could finish it. It was sooo much fun to hang out in a fun place (this was a pizza place unlike any other) with tons of people and action etc…

Back at the house they fed us sherbert and tea, and Ross photocopied lots of good maps to help us get to Santa Barbara- something we desparately need because we are excellent at getting lost- with a full tummy and a warm bed…aahh…a bed! we were set for a good nights sleep.