Tuesday was our first official day on the road and we set out from Palais de McIntosh and headed north along the Pacific Coast Highway. The first hour or so was spent on various superhighways which were roughly the equivalent of stacking Victoria Rd, the Harbour Bridge and the Princes Highway side by side and often on top of one another.
After we got a bit further north we had our first WalMart experience. It was a little bit disappointing really - I thought a BB gun would be much cheaper than $20...
Anyway - we made it as far north as Santa Barbara for lunch which was much nicer than any of the beach towns in the OC - the absence of thick fog/smog was a welcome change and the locals were all pretty friendly.
With the help of Emily, we eventually made it to San Luis Obispo and checked into the hostel where we met a fairly strange mix of people including this one pommy bloke who had been working on a farm in canada, found a bike in a rubbish tip and decided that he was going to ride the bike to Mexico and was about halfway there.
Given that it was our first official night on the road we decided that it would've been rude not to get out on the town and we were lucky to find out that it was $2 dollar pint night at the local uni pub. Our night took a further turn for the better when we met Mike who had the truly terrible job of working for a brewery and took it upon himself to offer us samples of their produce. Better still was the fact that Americans seemed to like the accents - even though most of them seemed to initially think we were English. Suffice to say, a good night was had by all.
That's all for now.
Hope you're all well.
Jez
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