Up next, a long beautiful drive to the coast. AJ and I listened to and discussed the music assembled on the play list and enjoyed one another's company. A stop at a farm market to pick up the locale's delicious fruitYo and some street tacos we proceeded past Salinas and Monterey en route to Pfeiffer Bi Sur State Park Campground.
The iconic high cliffs overlooking the blue Pacific Ocean such a draw!
We stayed in a nice, wooded campsite. Got a chance to use the bikes on a beautiful ride down the coast. Going up and down the cliffs was a challenge for the old man of the group with several false summits to negotiate. After cresting we flew down to sea level and had a snack at Partington Cove, watching magic happen as waves spouted through holes and channels in the rock.
The trip back was made possible (for me) by switching with AJ to Joyce's too small but electric bike. It was still work! It was made just possible with some battery juice which conveniently ran out just before cresting. A brief break at the Henry Miller library (Steinbeck only one of a band of area authors) where we picked up Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and Steinbecks 'To an Unknown God'. We stopped for lunch at Nepenthe and coasted back to our campground. Later we went into Monterey and saw Cannery Row, a public statue commemorating that work, Sea Otters in the Bay, and had a celebratory seafood dinner on the coast. 
Greg
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