The Recap... Day Seven

Spent the last night at the Marriott in Ventura. Michael was deathly ill, fighting that cold that eventually everyone (including me) caught. I convinced him to stay in bed and miss the candlelight vigil so that he would feel good enough to ride Day 7. Good thing too because he was running a fever and coughing a whole lot.

Up at 5:00am and down to the Starbuck's kiosk in the lobby. I downed a muffin and an americano and headed back to camp. Yoichi and I were on a mission: get on the road and off of the PCH by 10am so as not to get dinged by the surfboards and beach-goers this year. We were on the road by 6:04 (route opened at 6am) and to the lunch stop by 9:30. Damn right we were on San Vincente by 11am and soon stopped at Le Pain Quotidien for a real lunch and to watch our riders go by.

Me and my lunch/breakfast- so happy to be off the PCH.

Yoichi and his lunch/breakfast

After hanging out at brunch with Sandy and Donald, we went ahead and continued down San Vincente to Peet's coffee where we met up with folks and I rang the cowbell for awhile.

Me, Eric, and Cris
(Eric was one of my first TR leaders when I started training for ALC2 in 2003!)
David, Me and Donald at Peet's

more cowbell
(weird how that light fixture ended up on my head!)

Soon we were back on our bikes and headed for the final ride into the VA Center in Brentwood.
The end of another successful AIDS LifeCycle!