Today we move a little closer to San Francisco, our overnight stay will be Monterey only about 250km north - but we have plans! After a breakfast of pastries and coffee we headed off. We had planned to travel by the coastal highway but it has been closed for quite a while due to a land slide so we followed highway 101 instead, a little further from the coast. This allowed us to see some areas we had not been before as we have previously ridden the coast route. W...

We're off to the USA! "Again" I hear you say. We had no intention of travelling overseas this year, that is until our good friend Shayne Webley announced that he was getting married. So why the overseas trip? He is getting married in San Francisco to a beautiful American lady called Elizabeth. Now, we don't need much encouragement to travel and to be honest we could not find a better reason than to attend Shayne and Elizabeth's nuptuals on 16th September. So, a...