Final Destination

We've reached Santa Barbara, which is where we'd agreed a week or so ago was going to be our end point. Checking out the University currently, which is quite large and quite successful (UCSB), and where my friend just started her Ph. D. In Santa Barbara, it's hot in the sun and nice in the shade, and apparently it's like this all year, not getting much warmer in the summer and not getting much colder in the winter... hmmmmm. And there's mountains. But it's dry.
Anyways, not a bad place to live if you ask me.

Today: errands, laundry, dinner, drinks.
Tomorrow: get on a train at noon, with our bikes in boxes, and make sure we have enough reading material (me: one book; madalene: 4 books) seeing as it's a scheduled 31 hour ride which frequently runs late.

Back in Vancouver by Sunday, and back to filling my days with things, and a bit of cycling on the side.

Maybe one day I'll tell you the story about poppet, the little bike that could.