Tuesday, 7/28 - 43 miles. We are camping about 30 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Despite how close we are to San Francisco it is still very rural although there has been a noticeable increase in traffic. The coast highway we are following (CA rt. 1) veered inland again and passed through a lot of farmland. Primarily, we see cattle and horses but few crops growing. Unfortunately, whenever the road goes inland we encounter hills. Plus, it was very hot today. Probably the hottest weather since we were in WA at the beginning of the trip. It has cooled off a little in the campground tonight but it is still relatively warm. On most prior nights it was cold enough to require a long sleeve jacket. I had totally run out of clean clothes so we went a little off of the route and found a laundromat in Olema, CA. The hiker/biker site in the campground was full so they gave us an overflow site which was nice because there wasn't really any room left for more tents in the hiker/biker site. Hal rode back to the hiker/biker site to socialize. I am totally beat from the heat so I will probably go to sleep right after I take a shower. We are very close to the showers but they are closed so we have to walk a distance to another shower location. It appears that some CA parks are closed and some facilities at some parks are closed. I assume it is an effort by the state to save money. There were no stores or restaurants near the park so dinner ended up being a potpourri of various items. I wasn't really very hungry so it worked out fine. Most nights I sleep in my sleeping bag with it fully zipped. However, tonight it is much warmer so this might be the first night I can sleep without zipping up my bag.
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