January’s meeting will take place at 4pm at Pheiffer Big Sur State Park south of Monterey on the 25th. We have two campsites reserved in my name (#1751422 and 1751419) and one in Pat Potter’s
name (#1751424). While we do have reservations, I don’t know
specifically which sites they are, so the first to arrive at the
park will need to ask that all three campsites be together.
The tour to Big Sur will include the best
riding roads on the peninsula and a stop in Point Pinos in Monterey.
The tour will start at 8:30 AM from MiMi’s café (2208
Bridgepointe Parkway San Mateo) in the Bridegpoint shopping center
off of 92 in San Mateo (Foster City). We’ll head west on 92
to Skyline (35 S). We’ll get on 84 W to San Gregorio where we’ll
get on Stage Rd to Pescadero Rd. From there to Alpine Rd back onto
Skyline. Obviously, we will want to take 9 to 236 through Big Basin
Redwoods SP and maybe even to Empire Grade Rd into Santa Cruz. From
there, 1 down to Monterey to Big Sur. All of this is subject to change,
depending on the weather.
I hope to arrive into Monterey around noon,
we’ll catch lunch (not literally) and check out Pacific Grove
at Point Pinos. Here we’ll explore the museum at 1pm, then the lighthouse (whales are starting to migrate) and the monarch butterfly grove sanctuary (they should be there through February). Bring your binoculars and a jacket. Check out the museum website for details on the facilities.
When finished there, we’ll continue south on 1 for about an hour to Pheiffer Big Sur.
Once again, if you are first at our campsite, please request the three campsites to be together, speaking of first, if you are first at breakfast, please sit where we can pull together 10 chairs. If you want to meet us in Monterey, I think we will be at the museum around 1 PM. Send me an email before the tour if you want my cell phone number to call me on Saturday.
Sunset will be at 5:20 on Saturday, so if you want to join us for the tour, museum and meeting, but not in the mood to camp, you will have some daylight to make it back to the Bay Area that night. There is a lodge in Pheiffer for dinner and somebody told me that there’s another nice place just south of Big Sur.
The weather for November’s tour/meeting was perfect. Obviously
everyone followed my instructions for preventing rain. Please do so
again for January’s tour.
New riders and new to the club riders are
always welcome! Please contact me with any questions. The normal way
things go is we meet for breakfast an hour before departure and then
we start each ride with a meeting to go over some essential rules
of the road and distribute maps. We review how to ride on highways,
single lane roads and keeping an eye on the person behind you. While
we might get spread out after a while, it is important to wait for
the person behind you when we are at a stop sign or light.
We’ll stop for gas, breaks and lunch during the day. We hope
to be at our destination before 3 PM, give or take an hour. If you’re
not into tent camping, feel free to check for local hotels.
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