Carmel, CA

Whew! We just did our first century of the trip today! We started up in Half Moon Bay, and the conditions for most of the first 50 miles of the ride were just perfect---small rolling hills, perfectly clear, with a tailwind. We reached Santa Cruz much faster than expected, so we just decided to keep going, and we biked the entire 112 miles to Carmel today.

Ryan's dad joined us for almost 20 miles of the ride today, including the last few miles, where we biked along some of the golf cart roads at Pebble Beach.

Tomorrow, we're going to start attacking Big Sur---we're going to take it pretty easy tomorrow, but hopefully we won't regret biking so much today!

Total distance so far: 1646.7 miles