Saturday 14 September 2013
Day 9. Santa Barbara to Port Hueneme. Just 40.2 miles.
Another very enjoyable, meandering short day. A good job too as our route paralleled the coast, at times on bike paths, where our progress was hampered by the Saturday crowd out exercising or relaxing. Fascinating though to see all the different sizes, shapes, ages, dress, abilities going through their paces. Had to concentrate on map reading today as we crossed a built up area with many twists and turns, not always easy when dealing with constant, heavy, close traffic. Another hot, sunny day so we made quite an early start. At Rincon Point, popular with surfers from around the world, we watched them ride the waves. R.V's. (Residential Vehicles) lined the roadside for mile after mile, families enjoying their weekend in the sun, huge vehicles that must cost tens of thousands pounds. A surfer competition was in progress with stalls and sideshows. We had to enter Highway 101 which proved quite scary; fast, constant traffic very close to us, just had to concentrate hard and hold our line. Near Ventura a biker cycled alongside Murray asking where we were going, this is not unusual. This time Mike asked us back to his house, it was near our route so we agreed, met his wife Barbara and enjoyed their hospitality. Very kind, friendly couple. In Port Hueneme, we started going round in circles looking for accommodation, difficult to find any. I asked a lady for advice, turned out she had lived in Fife for a year and was delighted to hear our accents. She directed us to this hotel, Casa Via Mar, which has turned out to be one of the best so far. Great amenities, swimming pool - which we spent the afternoon beside, and very cheap. Great restaurant nearby, I had a fish dish 'Orange Roughy' ( steamed white fish ) and Murray had the biggest slice of Carrot Cake I have ever seen, must have been 9 inches deep, he ate the lot. Murray says he is losing weight, I don't know how as the portions are massive here.
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