Monday, 7/27 - 47 miles. Easy riding this morning with lots of small rolling hills. The route is still following CA route 1 which hugs the coast. Periodically, the road will jog inland to go around a cove. By the afternoon the rolling hills gave way to much steeper climbs. The corresponding downhills contained a lot of very tight turns so I couldn't pick up much speed due to having to constantly apply my brakes. I probably could have gone faster on the downhills but prudence seems to increase proportionally with age! Some sections of route 1 have significant drops of hundreds of feet just a few feet from the road edge; and, no guard rails. One section of the coastal highway this afternoon cut across an open cattle range and numerous cows were wandering on or near the highway. They seemed oblivious to people and any vehicles on the road. Cattle guards crossed the highway in places in order to restrict the cow's movements to some extent. We are camped tonight at a hiker/biker campsite in a state park in Bodega Bay, CA which is about 65 miles north of San Francisco.
