Atascadero, California

We started out this morning from Redding in the pouring rain.  Which was a little depressing, but after 10 or 15 minutes, we remembered the 23 days of rain we rode straight in Siberia, and then it didn't seem so bad.

We covered a lot of ground, about 660 km, but we did have one problem with the bikes.  I noticed that the front end was vibrating a lot, and was making my hands numb.  I rode like this for a while, but we came around a corner and the bike lurched.  I quickly pulled over to the side, jumped off, and saw the front tire was flat.  We mixed up some soapy water, checked the tire, but there was no leaks.   So.. WTF?  We pumped the tire back up, it held air fine, and is still holding air 5 hours later.  So no idea so far what happened.

W checked into a hotel tonight, to dry out a bit, and were hoping to watch the UFC fight at a local bar, but no go, there are no bars in the city showing the fights.

So, we'll go for a walk around the town tonight, and see what we see.