Let’s start with a Trey Lyric, shall we–“Gonna take my bike out, take my bike. Gonna ride it slowly gonna ride just how I like”.  That was my original favorite TAB song so go buy it. It will change your life. Here is the link below I couldn’t figure out how to make it a hyperlink my sincere apologies!

http://www.livephish.com/browse/music/0,616/Trey-Anastasio-mp3-flac-download-2-27-2011-The-Riviera-Theatre-Chicago-IL

Day 2 started a bit later (it was planned although we were fairly banged up the next morning I wont lie) but we were on the road by 8:30 am and it was SPECTACULAR out as in clear and sunny and just all fantasticness. We had a ton of fun from Dana Pt all the way down the coast vs the day before where we had a ton of fun EXCEPT for the 10 miles bracketing Long Beach where it was a treacherous gauntlet of Big Rigs road hazards/rabid pit pulls and just all around angry anti-bicycling people.  The ride was just over 60 miles and was truly inspiring. Nathan was heard repeatedly saying: “I wish my wife, who I love so much, was here to enjoy this with me.” Bobby tried to reply but couldn’t.  It was touching Nathan’s honesty was too much and Bobby started sobbing–Yes, he missed his loving wife that much.  Normally I couldn’t compete with such intense male honesty but maybe it was because I am 50 now but I just screamed for all to hear: “Danget everybody we are just a bunch of guys who love our wives so much and we want everybody to know!”  The fans LOVED it and we had many cheers. Sorry I get distracted–so we cruised down the coast thru lots of neat towns and at mile 25 we got to go THRU Pendelton. AND it was Veterans Day to boot. With our American Flag Ryloride Jerseys we were a BIG hit with the Marines and they cheered us aggressively for the 6.5 miles thru the base. That part was cool so lets just put up those pictures now–Nathan you are on the wrong side of the fence!

Cool. For lunch we dined right on the water in Oceanside–I had the new rage-“avocado Toast.

We dined and biked on thru the part of the world we all know so well–we savored every beach town and I regaled Bobby and Nathan with endless stories of my days in SD. They both seemed enthralled I will say. We did the mandatory stop at the Lodge at Torrey Pines and then cruised past the greatest school in the world, UCSD, and down to LJ Shores where STR met us with much fanfare. The crowds were pretty thick but we made it and then headed back north to L’Auberge in Del Mar–SWEET location.  Here are some pictures of that along with Long Beach!

 

Here I am checking into L’Auberge in my new hat the Heisenberg! My wife got it for me isn’t it sweet.

Before Q&A I wanted to give a shout out to my loving and oh so cute daughters. Here they are as younguns–In the first Kate is scaring all the kids out of the baby pool but it doesn’t phase Sarah and then Sarah scaring all the kids off the beach!

Team Update:

-wait, we have a Post Ryloride Conference Call so I need to come back to this later today. Enjoy the pictures!