Monday morning we had a power breakfast of breakfast burritos. Jesse found some hot green chili at the store and I went to work. Jon for some reason bought whole wheat tortillas, but the end product didn't turn out so bad. If you don't already know, I am all about breakfast burritos, and can be quite particular about them. Our goal for Monday was to ride from Pismo Beach California to somewhere around Santa Barbara. As Usual we got out late and had to push until late, and didn't have a place to stay planned out.
When we got into Santa Barbara, I experienced the craziest small world BYU story. We were trying to find a place to crash for the night, when we exited onto some smaller side streets. we were next to a golf course when I saw a car with a BYU parking sticker in the window. I said, "Hey! BYU!" and then I looked into the car to see Garrett Graves and Jon Esplin, two guys that I had home taught a couple of years ago. They were headed down the 101 from their summer internships in San Jose to Disneyland. Apparently they had taken some surface streets to find a restroom somewhere, and they ran into me on my bicycle. Small world, really small world.
As I said we had no plan on where to stay and all available hotels were around $150 for two people, we had five. We looked into nearby campgrounds and hostiles, but they were all too pricey and in the wrong locations. We then thought about UCSB which was nearby and decided to try to see if there was an on-campus place to stay. I rode over and saw some high-rise dorm buildings, much larger than what Deseret Towers had been. I asked them if there was a way to rent dorm rooms for a single night, but they said they only did conferences. They did however point us to a place across campus that runs dorm rooms like a hotel. I called up and talked to the lovely Nicole, and we had a place close to the beach, on campus for all 5 for $109. We crammed into a 2 twin bed room, but there was a communal kitchen an lounge that we took over where we cooked steaks and spaghetti for dinner, and had pancakes and strawberries for breakfast with yogurt. It worked out very well, especially with the large amounts of showers for five ripe men.
Tuesday we rolled out trying to make out way to Malibu. The route was fairly quite, but along the most amazing beaches for most of the way. We saw tons of surfers along with people suntanning and playing volleyball. Jon had to start late because he had a crash on the campus of UCSB and turned his wheel into a taco. Poor guy had to drop $100 for a new rear wheel in order to continue on the trip.
When we arrived at the Malibu Beach RV Park, we were told that we could only have 4 in a camp site or we would need to pay another $65 for a second tent site. We decided it would be easier to have one person leave and sleep in the suburban instead. We were going to execute this plan, when we met two girls from Ireland that were camping in the spot next to us and we worked a bargain where we would cook breakfast if they would let us set up a ten in their spot. All tent areas had ample room.
We are off for LA today, and breakfast is ready.
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