Day 2

Day 2 was a long day-105.4 mile ride, mostly flat, from Santa Cruz to King City. D woke up to a tent drenched with condensation from the fog. Everything was wet. The day's ride included a visit to the "Cookie Lady" (she starts baking cookies in March for the ride and made over 2,600 this year-vegan, raisen, chocolate chip etc.), a peek into a mission, views of strawberry fields (where the workers stopped working to wave to the cyclists), again, amazing views of the ocean and fabulous surroundings. She missed out on the skinny dipping, darn. The weather was cold in the morning but warmed up to the upper 80's /lower 90's. The winds blew from every direction and at times the cyclists were riding slanted to one side just to stay upright. Deanne is feeling pretty good, just has some pains in her shoulders from leaning forward so much-thank goodness for those instant heat packs. At one of the stops today they were handing out "otter pops"- boy did they hit the spot. After a couple of chocolate milks for breakfast and lunch she was ready to tackle anything. D stayed behind to ride in with a newbie so they didn't get into camp until around 7 pm. The girl she was riding with thought that they were the last of the cyclists to get to camp. Deanne had to tell her friend to turn around and look behind her- there were somewhere between 100 and 150 people still coming. Except for running out of bandaids everything is going pretty well. D hasn't been able to reach Gab Cast, there are just too many people trying to leave phone messages. Hope she gets plenty of sleep tonight because tomorrow's ride is known as the "Quad Buster" due to the bad condition of the road.

Mom