The first day went without a hitch away from Reinecke being an hour late thus making us wait for him. There was a penalty assessed I assure you. We departed the Huntley a bit after 8 and made good time despite a pesky but persistent head wind. To assuage his guilt for being over an hour late Reinecke set a blistering pace so we made good time.  The ride along the beaches is always enjoyable and Palos Verdes is a cool town to ride through as well. Then you come to Wilmington which is the scariest place ever for somebody on a bike–or for some group of bikers. It was more treacherous than I remember it being the last 2 years so we needed to use all of our survival skills. 10 miles of chaos but then you cruise down to Huntington where we dined on Fish Tacos before banging out the last 25 miles putting the ride at exactly 75 miles. We are staying at the Laguna Cliffs which is quite lovely.  We then ubered back to Laguna for a dinner at Boardwalk which was fantastic and is run by one of the Top Chef Contestants I liked. Ok, here are some pictures. The first one is of another of our riders Bruce Reinecke. 
I must complete the roster for the ride–We now are fully staffed with Joe:

and Andrew :

filling out the RR3 roster. We lost Maust and Dom to the Cold War Kids current tour. Now, The Mrs and I went to see the CWK last month at the Fox in Oakland–Maust is right there! Dom provides security for the band so he also was unable to join us but the band did dedicate this leg of the tour to RR3 so we say thanks for that!

You know what, I gotta go. Sorry I will have to come back and finish this later where we will go into my recent Book Tour with Bill Walton

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