Monday and Tuesday

Today we rode thru a valley with a little township and I mean 6 or so smallholdings / ranches I suppose, they were fenced had dogs horses and cattle and broken down cars that were probably worth a fortune to some restorer / collector, tin wood and other crap festooned outside the houses.
Now remember how deep open water always gets the Jaws theme playing in your head, well today this valley got me dingle dinging the Duelling with Banjo music from the film Deliverance.
Try it, dingle ding ding ding
Donga dong dong dong
dingle ding ding
And repeat faster and faster.

The lead rider had a near miss with a deer, the funniest / saddest thing was that there were loads of ground squirells sat in the middle of the road and when they see you coming they sit up and wag there fluffy tails at you, it’s just like they are saying bring it on dude and then some of them die.

Coalinga marks our first experience of the flatlands, the temp was hot at 34 degrees and then it got hotter – 39.5 deg it hit.
Lots of water sipped from the camel back, visor up for fresh air, visor down as your head boiled in the hot dry wind.

Just as an aside there is a place on a tour like this called Helmet World, that only exists for you, inside your head, inside your Helmet.
In my world I think of people, names of places, lists of things to do, Look at this, Look at that, I even have my own Karaoke set up and as Roger K and Robbo Snr will vouch for know, my library of two lines or one verse maximum of any song ever written, is unbounded.

Helmet World is endless.

Onto 3 rivers

This is our base for the 1st of the big national parks, sequoia and the giant redwood trees and then kings canyon, 20 miles of descending winding road. Did I mention the heat.