We left Morro Bay on Friday morning, mission accomplished. Jan and I have rode the most scenic highway in America. Well he drove it (mightly, I might add) and I rode it. The most surprising thing was how cold it was. Apparently the part we rode, from the Redwood forest down to Morro Bay never gets any warmer either. Everyone said in regards to the weather, "this is it" doesn't get above about 72. With the moist air and wind off the ocean, you better dress warm, if you are on a motorcycle especially. :)
We drove up to the Sequoia trees and saw some of them. Jan and I had seen them before, they are humongus trees. Skip and Chery had not seen them so we had to check that off their list. After the Sequoia's we drove South to Porterville and stayed at a Motel 6. Oh, Skip has done a terrific job at finding and booking us cheap, clean hotel rooms. He is a good trip planner. Him and Cheryl have been a joy to travel with.
As we drove along the highway on the way to the park we saw lots of fruit tree groves. We saw orange trees, olive trees, pomgrante trees, loquate trees, avacoda trees, grape orchards, I think that's all I can remember, and I probably didn't spell them all right either. Ok I keep backing up but now we are going south. We drove by tons and tons of oil wells today, the most I have seen all together like that. It was truly an oil field. We stopped a few times and we always meet other motorcycle travelers. Today Jan probably saved a young couples life by being so observant. We had been talking to them (oh, they were a pair, for sure) and we were starting to leave and Jan saw a big worn through spot on his back tire. The chords of the tire were showing. The guy had a fit, said that was a new tire. But the tire could have blown any minute and they had passed us flying. They were on a two wheeler pulling a trailer. Well we made it to Needles, CA to another Motel 6 and will get an early start tomorrow. GOODNIGHT
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