One last adventure we wanted to do before moving south, is to bike across the Golden Gate Bridge. Today was a perfect day to do that. The weather was clear and about 72 degrees and very little wind. We loaded up the bikes and drove to a parking/lookout area just south of the bridge. Claude took down the bikes off the roof and we began the trip. There were hundreds of people of different age groups. Some walking, some riding bikes, but all in awe of being on the bridge. You could overhear people from all parts of the world, different languages and nationalities. One mother was expaining to her young child that people come from all over the world to see this bridge. It was a delightful ride although with all those people, we had to watch out not to run into others. I took a couple of videos above. One as I rode the bike and the other of the views we had from the railing.
On the other side we had to make the decision whether or not to ride down to Sausalito. When I say "down" that's what it is. About a two mile ride down the road and much of it without a real bike trail. Claude asked an older rider who was coming back about how difficult it was, and he said that it was okay if you take it slow. So, off we went to my hesitation. Claude takes off like a 12 year old down hills with no fear, and I do tend to be a little more cautious. We weaved our way down the hillside and found our favorite old restaurant FISH. and had our same favorite lunch. It was way yummy. I was pretty much adverse to the idea of biking back up the hill but although I hesitated we began our return trip. After the scenic flat part we started up our first hill. It was HARD I tell ya! I baulked at the idea of being able to make it and we had barely begun. Claude was a good coach. He said "don't think of the future just think of now" "Can you take one more step?" I said YES...barely and he said then right now you can do it. So we walked our bikes. (Don't get me wrong...Claude was huffing and puffing plenty himself) But I then got indignant and figured I would leave him in the dust. One good thing about he and I is that we pretty much are at the same physical level which means we wear out at the same time. That's really a good thing for us. With some walking of our bikes and some slow riding, we MADE IT. I was so happy he talked me into doing it so we could have that experience together. Here are some photos of the day. Do try at least walking across if you ever get a chance. It was a pristine and beautiful view everyone would appreciate.
Tomorrow we get to move from Morgan Hill to the south. Depending on how things go, we may spend a little more time in Carmel tomorrow or, if it doesn't work out, we will end up in Paso Robles for a couple of days. We are excited to move south. Enjoy! Oh yea...we took a photo of the Airship Zepplin that is new in this area for your viewing pleasure.
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