Days 0 and 1, San Diego to Alpine, CA

Day 0, San Diego: 8.6 Miles, 306 feet gained

Day 1: 40.7 miles, 3510 feet gained

Day 0’s ride consisted of my returning to the Ocean Beach Hotel after returning the rental car I drove from home near Sacramento to San Diego. Doing so saved me the trouble of disassembling my bike for a flight and reassembling it after getting to the hotel. We had our orientation and a very nice dinner at Tom Ham’s Lighthouse on the tip of Harbor Island.

Day 1 was relatively short so we didn’t leave very early, first stopping to take a group photo on the beach:

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Fall 2025 Update

I let this site go cold toward the end of 2023’s West Coast Ride. Sorry about that. While I didn’t finish the uploads for the last few days of that ride, when I came back to wake it up just now, it appears that the days after day 8 that I’m pretty sure I posted have disappeared. I may try to put together some of the photos from those days in a single wrap-up post; stay tuned.

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