On Thursday Emily came down to hang out with me for the day until she leaves for USU next Friday :( We decided to go for a bike ride down by the beach. Originally we were going to go from Newport to Huntington but I remembered about a trail from San Juan that you can take all the way to the San Clemente Pier. So we figured it would be an adventure since neither one of us had ever done it!! We were doing great, and first stopped when we got to Doheney to take a couple of pictures. We then headed through the Doheney campgrounds and to Capo Beach. Next we hopped onto PCH and it was nice because there was a wall between us and the traffic. We made a quick stop at North Beach (Pico) to get our tires pumped up...they were really flat but we were clueless how flat they were!! A nice man pumped them up for us and then asked us how long we were going to be riding because it would be getting dark in a few hours and we would have "headwinds" on the way back. Emily and I both looked at each other and laughed at "headwinds", whatever!!!
We then headed on a dirt trail along the train tracks and beach towards San Clemente Pier. We came to a bridge where we had to walk our bikes or we would get fined $100, so we chose to walk our bikes!! We stopped for a few pics since the views were amazing!! As we came to the pier, there was a free concert getting set up!
We went to the pier and had some dinner on the pier. As we were sitting there, we noticed the flags moving more and more due to the wind picking up. Emily and I both looked at each other and said "the headwinds" and laughed!!! After we ate, we took a couple more pics on the pier and then headed back.
It started to get a little chilly and once we got back on to PCH we experienced THE HEADWINDS!!! They were so strong and all we could do was laugh because it took everything in us to pedal against them!! Remember, we are on beach cruisers with NO GEARS!! We noticed the sun starting to go down and figured we better hurry before it gets dark. We spent the rest of the ride laughing at each other trying to pedal against the winds!!!
We finally made it back to my car and that's when the next adventure began, trying to get those dumb, bulky bikes back in my 4Runner!!! We had no issues putting them in the car on the way down, but now we couldn't figure out how to get them to fit. Having no strength from our "headwind" adventure didn't help either!! After 20 minutes and taking them in and out at least 5 times, we finally got them in the car. All we could do was laugh!!!!
Afterwards we stopped at "Sno on the Go" to get some shaved ice. Emily had never been before and she was quite overwhelmed with all the options to choose from and the fact that you could put ice cream in the middle of it was hard for her to understand. I told her to trust me and sure enough, she is hooked!!
We went home and her and Joe played some Rock Band and then we went to bed. We had a blast and I am going to miss her when she goes away to school :(
Emily brought her camera, so most of these pictures are from that. I then used my app "camera +" from my iphone to change the effects and make them look pretty cool :)
