The winter was rainy, like everything was flooded rainy. But the winter here is also short and it's now pretty much over. It was a warm weekend and we headed to north. When we started from San Francisco city it was sunny and warm - and I had my sunglasses as you can see from the pic. Driving over Golden Gate was awful. Thickest mist I remember seeing, and it was dark in it. In addition the mist was thick enough to completely wet my glasses so I didn't see much of anything for few miles. But it was just few miles and then it cleared out as we climbed to Mt. Tamalpais to get from Sausalito to the ocean side. We went via Mt. Tamalpais route since highway 1 was closed because of the mud slides. I said it was rainy winter, didn't I.
The map below shows a little where we were headed and also the blue pin points where we had breakfast. We really were not the only ones with the idea of riding bike and in need of a bite. Road was great, the weather was great and we stayed night at Valley Ford. Most hotels were completely booked and I guess it was because it's the whale season. The big whales migrate to north near the coast and it's possible to spot them on their voyage (more text at the bottom, this time there is plenty of pics)
On our way back the weather was interesting. When we woke up early in the morning Valley Ford was enveloped by a mist. We waited few hours and is cleared out mostly, but the first 20 miles were pretty freezing. Temperature was something below 10C (below 50 F), which is not that low, but we were not prepared for that. But when we got to Stinson Beach it was already over +25C (77 F) and we were sweating. Oh, and did I mention that I had quite a flu, which sort of made me want to breath through my mouth every now and then. I use open helmet so the number of bugs I ate along the way was pretty significant.
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