Boot Camp Day 3 Pine Valley to Jacumba

We are sitting here by the pool in Jacumba having finished once again the mountains. We have been building our strength slowly, very slowly. So we are a day behind in our schedule, but we are having fun when not grinding up mountains. You can see it on the I trip server For those too tired to click through here is the pictorial elevation map.

You can see Pine Valley in the dip after the first peak and Jacumba in the dip before the last little rise leading to the screaming descent on the 8.

As we sat here another quake hit about 30 miles south. There have been innumerable quakes in the area. People here seem nonplussed. Octillo and Seely through which we ride tomorrow have had a ton of quakes.... so we will see.

We have met interesting people along the way. Jacumba is full of eccentrics and today the spa has a ton of cyclists. Some are here for a local race up and down to the Golden Acorn, there are four others riding to Florida with HUGE RV as their support vehicle. It would be cool to have a support vehicle and not have to carry gear, but then you have to bring along one very patient person who is happy to drive 50-80 miles a day and wait a lot. Kathleen did that for me on the Underground Railroad trail and in Quebec, we had a great time meeting for lunch and such, but it got old ofter 10 days or so. The pursuit person has to have some fun too.

After the ride today we went to the pool, Dave hit the spa too and then we played with the hotel dog sheeba who loves to fish rocks from the fountain. The pool guy tells us she is very ancient and in such good health because of this regular bathing in the mineral springs. Dave explains that geothermal power that makes the springs warm is caused by the rubbing of tectonic plates that make the earth quake!

Our schedule has become: 5:30 wake up, 6:30 on the road, stop when it makes sense. Tomorrow we will do a very reasonable 65 miles and should be in our hotel by 2 pm.

We are doing some local eating and some supermarket eating. Frankly neither of us wants a heavy dinner so light eating in the evening is better. Pictures a little later.