Day 13: Beaches and Mountains

For breakfast, we enjoyed the largest buffet breakfast we had ever seen! Seriously, there were 5 different stations, each about the size of a decent sized breakfast on its own. Anyway, once we sat down, we couldn't stop laughing and making jokes because we were literally the only 2 people in this huge cafeteria that didn't have white hair! I wish I had taken a picture, because I know you don't believe me. I don't know how this hotel had established such an age-specific clientele, but they had done a great job at it.

As usual, after breakfast, we headed up and moved on out! We started on the highway, which was pretty but quite busy. So we broke away from that to ride on the coastal road. We had great weather, and the water sure was beautiful!

Then we turned inland toward the mountains. The terrain became more like a desert as we drove toward the Sierra Nevada. The mountain roads kept us very entertained with their gorge-ous views and winding roads.

Glad we weren't here when this landslide happened!

There were lots of sections of the road that looked like this.

For lunch we stopped at a small mountain restaurant that smelled like corndogs, which made me crave corndogs, but of course they didn't have corndogs in the Spanish mountain boonies. Bri had a specialty of the area - a sausage breakfast lunch - and I had a salad and a ham and noodle soup.

Later in the day, we came across a TON of bees! They were everywhere, and we were both stung by stingers that had gotten stuck in our riding gear. Yow!

We enjoyed more amazing coastal roads - the best we had seen by far. It was so remote and the water was sooo blue, and there were lots of pretty white developments.

Cool bridge hidden in the cliff by the water

It took us forever to find our hotel that night. We were staying at a newer hotel, which was nice, but the signage wasn't quite established. So we drove around for about 20 minutes (which after a full day of driving, 20 minutes is a long time!) and then tried to call the hotel to figure out where it is. The front desk lady was so funny - she couldn't convey where they were located and then got frustrated and hung up on us! When we finally found the hotel, we enjoyed drinks and dinner at the hotel and relaxed the rest of the evening!