KC and I did a really long ride yesterday. We got a bit of a late start and nearly ran out of daylight, so we didn’t finish by taking G16 back up to Carmel and used a little more of US 101 than we wanted. In all the ride over from the PCH (Hwy 1) through the military reserve to Jolon was little more than a well paved goat trail, but it was fantastic fun. Click on the map image to see the KML file loaded in Google Maps. More photos (not many) at Flickr.
I highly recommend the ride down the coast and then up & over on Nacimiento-Fergusson Rd. Some photos at Flickr, but to be honest, we were enjoying ourselves a little too much to stop and take photos. The ride up from the coast got terribly hot in a hurry and we zipped along the base as quickly as possible to make sure we got a little ‘man-made breeze’.
We ran out of daylight — or were going to, if we took Carmel Valley Rd back to the coast, so we ended up taking CA-183 across to Castroville to save around 30 minutes. In the end we got home just as the sun set, so it was the right choice.
In all, an excellent day out. We are planning another ride north from home for Monday.
