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So much more on Instagram stories & I just spoke this all out to my phone sooooo, good luck reading this 😗 But here’s my take on the day::::

QUICK RECAP: honestly, this could be a real pivotal moment in the entire trip, because I’m having to make a decision to go along the coast or inland at Monterey. I decided to go along the coast to Big Sur because skipping the Central Valley just feels like a crime against humanity, I am very aware and very mentally prepared that tomorrow may either break me, break my bike, or stop me dead in my tracks and force me to backtrack around 150 miles. I don’t care, this is about adventure, about storytelling, and about finding out who I really am inside. (UPDATE: Definitely gonna have to back track. The 2 options I thought were possible are in fact, not.)

Skipping the Central coast and not even trying to go around the landslide would be something I would regret for the rest of my life. Even if I have to backtrack immediately, like I can’t get any further or even try to do my workarounds I’m still very happy that I got here to Big Sur and checked it out and today was just absolutely a movie.

Started in Mill-valley just outside of SF, this kid Aiden helped me across the bridge, which was a huge help because my route had me going away that wasn’t possible , connected with a bunch of people along the route, I ate some of John’s balls, Jim gave me a burrito, Josh bought me a coffee, Troy got me through Santa Cruz, and I ended the 12 hour day with a BANG in Big Sur.

ROUTE: Compared to the avenue of the Giants and the redwoods outside of the elk Meadow, I can’t imagine anything topping that so my spectrum on what is a good route is pretty messed up now. But I will try to be as objective as possible, crossing the Golden Gate bridge Was quite a highlight. It was kind of surreal seeing the arches towering through the fog. That was short-lived and then the rest of the ride was just pretty whatever.

The next opportunity to have some stoke was going through Santa Cruz. But I had to stop at a bike shop and fix my rear tire as it sprung a leak and I had to plug it, so I was down on time and this guy Troy escorted me through the locals only part of Santa Cruz. This saved me a ton of time, but we did skip the iconic Santa Cruz Boardwalk. 

I’ve spent a lot of time in Monterey and really dig it, but I didn’t get to do much of the cool stuff in Monterey. Carmel Valley has some insane roads but all I ended up doing was riding the bike path along the beach. So around mile 140 is when it opened up to the insane views of the ocean and the giant cliffs. 

If I was going to take someone on a ride in this area, we would just start in Carmel and ride out to Big Sur, pretty much skipping everything else. 

MENTAL: OK, dude, today was not a low point mentally but one of the highest points spiritually I’ve ever had. I cried uncontrollably three times trying to talk about my family to the GoPro. Initially, I was very scared and timid to take on this project alone. Even just days before leaving for this project I was frantically trying to figure out a way to bring someone else with me. I’ve never had to be 100% in control of my well-being Before and so I was scared that I wouldn’t be able to do this alone. 

But the journey of self exploration on this trip is beyond anything I can type here. I am so exhausted mentally physically and spiritually that I cannot hold up any façade or masks around my True being. I know that sounds so hippie dippy, but we all hold up masks to show the world and others what we think they want from us or how we think we should be. We are very rarely faced with our true soul coming out on the outside. 

I Talk a lot about family, and my kids and I believe I’m being genuine and I believe that that’s who I really am, but you never really  finding out that the love in my heart for my kids and my wife Kristin is really truly who I am as a person. 

I saw a store selling plants as I rode by which reminded me of my wife because she likes plants and I thought about bringing her to this plant shop and the thought of her being with me, even though she’s not with me just the thought of it had me crying anime style tears. They are tears of joy and love, which then makes me so happy that then it sort of feeds back into this overload of emotions and then I just keep crying. 

I started bawling my eyes out while going down a descent at 45 miles an hour and was like holy shit dude I’m gonna fucking crash while I’m crying about my family This is so stupid 😂

There’s a phrase that says something like absence makes the heart grow fonder or something like that, and this trip, being away from family but also having their unwavering support has just made me so confident and so grounded in my mission as a husband and father that undoubtedly this will make me be able to reach my full potential as a family man. Long story long I cried my eyes out and it was fucking awesome and I love my family.

BIKE: I don’t wanna jinx this, but every single impossible route every single unbound or everything I’ve ever done I’ve never flatted, which is just statistically impossible. I didn’t completely flat today, but I did run over some glass and it cut the rear tire and it started spitting sealant. nothing too crazy and I definitely could’ve kept riding but my front had a slow leak in it as well that I had to keep airing up with CO2 a day. Since there was a bike shop right along my route, I jammed in there real quick and used it as a quick lunch, stop and cell phone charge session while we put new sealant in the front and put my spare tire on the rear. Other than a very small piece of glass that I just immediately plugged and really wasn’t any issue, I did plan ahead and since I was already going to stop, just made the best of it.

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