Ride To Half Moon Bay

We decided to take the old hwy to Half Moon Bay avoiding Devils Slide. It's a fun ride with no traffic (it's closed to cars), but it is much higher and longer, and it has a lot of loose gravel in patches. Due to the gravel and pot holes in the old road the down hill portion was ruined and the ride took much longer than planned. I would not recomend taking this route with road bikes.

Here is the route~

Marin Headlands Trip ~ Veiw from the hill behind the hostel

Marin Headlands Hostel

I freaking love this hostel. It has a nice big kitchen with friendly staff, but most of all I absolutely love the giant front room. It is absolutely the largest and most comfy room in any hostel I've ever been to. It has 6 giant tables and a grip of plush couches, High ceiling and more picture travel books than you could shake a stick at. Something about hanging out in this room made me incredibly happy. All of this just few miles out of San Francisco and for 21 bucks! I'm so happy I found this place I'm going to make it a regular weekend get away.

Website -----> http://www.norcalhostels.org/marin/

Mike parking his bike in front of the hostel


Mike chilling outside the hostel






Hanging out in the main room



Mike made a mean breakfast. It sucked hauling all this food on out bikes, but it was well worth it.

Santa Cruz Trip Pictures

Martin insisted that we stop at Martin's Beach. We rode down and it was pretty lame.


Top of Devil's Slide.


It's the views like this that make the ride so amazing.


Pigeon Point Lighthouse Hostel. This is where we spent the night and Martin cooked up a mean pork loin.


Steps up from the beach at Pigeon Point Hostel.


One of the dorm rooms at Pigeon Point Hostel.


Getting the bikes ready for day two.


I had to stop for this shot before we left.


Frolicing on the beach at Ano Nuevo Beach


After a long couple of days biking the fish tacos this little taqueria in Davenport were amazing.

Santa Cruz Trip Additional Info

To get home from Santa Cruz you can put your bike on a shuttle bus that will take you to Cal Train in San Jose. It is $4.00 ride the shuttle. You have to bring two bungie cords to strap you bike on the bus.
Here is a link to the bus schedule.

The Shuttle will drop you off at San Jose Diridon station. It is $7.50 to get back to San Francisco on the Cal Train.
Here is a link to the train schedule.

This map of the trip has an elevation profile but cannot be embedded.
An additional map of the trip with an elevation profile.

Santa Cruz Trip

I'm going on a bike ride down to Santa Cruz the Weekend. Here is route.


View Larger Map

More Bike Ride Pics!

Morgan Territory Bliss

Here is a short movie my friend Jeff made of our bike ride yesterday over Mt. Diablo. That's me at the end.

Paradise Loop

Once you get past Tiburon and out of the traffic, the Paradise loop is a very nice ride.

Bike Ride To Santa Cruz

On The Road

On the Road was published in September 50 years ago.

I'll be on the road myself this week. I'll be taking a couple days to ride down the Hwy 1 along California's cost then I'll ride the Amtrak back. If you see five beat bikers on the side of the road this weekend give us some encouragement.