What a fantastic adventure! Sorry I didnt blog the last few days ( I received QUITE a few angry emails!) but we are busy. We arrived at the St Regis at 4 and we out to dinner by 5:30 so the Rylo is sorry but I was busy.
We really didnt know what we were getting ourselves into but man did we have a great time figuring it out. My turn by turn Garmin worked fabulously so it guided us–Thanks to Karen Wiggan for being in charge of my Technology team–TeamRyloTech–and getting all of my gizmos up and running before the journey.
The weather was fantastic the entire way although there were some hefty winds–most of them at our back though. I have so much to say but I really need to go to Robertos so let me go day by day (one post today another tomorrow) and I have a TON of great pictures so there will be plenty of them and I think you can click on them to blow them up–should you want to look at say my powdery blue eyes–or something like that.
We departed the Huntley at 7:20 (Bobby is always late) and boogied south! We had our first official stop where STR (ok Support Team Rylo) met us in Huntington Beach which was exactly mile 50. We dined on Fish Tacos at the Pier with all but Rylo also enjoying a Bloody Mary. I know. The food was so so and they raged when we insisted on eating with the bikes at the table but we were a pretty motley and overwhelming crew (we had probably 25 paparazzi following us at this pt) so they yielded but fed us quickly. Here we have Nathan studying the markets pre-departure. He was scared so he was trying to distract himself. The others are the beginning of the journey where the excitement was palpable!!
After lunch we thanked STR-hugged them–and headed out! I managed to lose my glasses so I grabbed an awesome pair at the pier for 10 bucks they might be seen in the next batch of pictures. The wind really picked up as did the crowds but we just kept plowing forward. By mile 65 we were sick of it and wanted a beer but we were only at the Shake Shack so we stopped and acted like tourists. The cheering of the crowds gave us the energy we needed and we flew through Laguna Past Crystal Cove until we arrived, to much fanfare, at the St. Regis. Here are a variety of shots of that stuff.
Once at the Hotel I was upgraded to a suite with a Butler. The Butler was fabulous but scared me. He was 8 feet tall and well he was just scary. BUT Jeeves came through with this when he heard I was 50! Thanks Jeeves!
Lastly we went to dinner in Laguna with special guest Bruce Reinecke! Yes! We not only have a famous rock star we have Bruce Reinecke. Bruce recently retired from an illustrious career at Citi where he was an MD and on the Firm’s Competitive singing team : “The Screaming Citis!” Bruce is an avid cyclist and will join Ryloride3 next year! Before joining Citi Bruce was a linguist with the CIA where he translated intercepts before being promoted to Head Linguist Guy which enabled him to interrogate the various evil doers around the world. Bruce speaks 11 languages, plays the flute and once considered being a Poet but he couldnt get anything to rhyme with flute so he moved onto bond sales. Bruce hooked us up with a great place for dinner where we did some serious damage. Here we enjoying some local IPAs along with well ummm wheat grass shots! Being around a guy turning 50 gets people excited for some reason!
Ok I gotta go I will try to get to some Q&A later today Tierney submitted a lot of questions. Here is day one in a picture!
And action shot!
More later!