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Usually, when I don't blog for a couple of days, it means either things are so madly busy that I don't have time or that things are going so smoothly that there is nothing to say.  Inexplicably it has been the latter.

We have completed our detour around Big Sur and are now back 'on course' in Aroyo Grande.  Yesterday was a tough hilly day and this morning a couple of the group were suffering the after effects of overnight food poisoning; you will seldom see a much less enthusiastic departure than I witnessed in Paso Robles.  Only 1 rider elected for 30 miles in the VOS* and the rest got their miles done like troopers.

Dom and I were considerably more upbeat this morning as it should be the last requiring breakfast served out of the rooms.  We have been operating 3 sets of breakfast kit but have now consolidated down to 1 (just in case) and given the surplus to the maid.  This is the first concrete sign that we are on the home straight.

Over the 12 years that we have been running this trip I think the Best Western Casa Grande is the only hotel we have used every trip.  It has a nice pool, decent rooms and, crucially, a competent receptionist.  We are sharing the hotel with a group attending a Vincent motorcyle rally.....these machines were built about 20 miles from where I was born.

Tomorrow we are going to Denmark.

*Van of Shame

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