Raven's Roads
Living an interesting life: the travels and musings
of motorcycling author Linda R. Moore

Aug 11, 2002

August 11 2002

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Another lonely day while Don slept, wasting sunlight. But it turned out okay. ;-)

About six, we decided on the spur of the moment to go for a ride to see the sunset at the coast. We took the freeway, as it was getting on in the evening, and Don’s coat (actually my overcoat for riding in the UK) decided to unzip and turn him into a tent! We had to pull into a nearby industrial estate and zip him up.

By the time we were coming down highway 84 to the coast, it was already quite cool and I was remembering things like “should have put on a pullover”. I just don’t equate August in California with cold, but it’s been a much cooler summer overall, with occasional blasts of heatwave. There was a strong haze over the coast which totally hid any sunset there might have been - oh well. But we rode up to Pacifica, which was fun, and saw pelicans wheeling here and there as we did. We had dinner at Denny’s with a really nice waitress who made sure we were looked after and then rode home through patchy fog. It did cheer me up!