Everyone slept great last night although it did get a little chilly. The air conditioner/heater didn’t quite keep up and we might need a few more blankets.

After a hearty breakfast at the motel  . . .

it was time for assemble, test, assemble, etc . . .etc.

Then it time for a little reorganizing and repacking. Guess which room had a bad case of the ‘messies’?

The Dog Beach area is a huge do beach with every kind of canine running everywhere. They are welcomed every where including some restaurants.

Our motel even had a doggie shower!

A view from our balcony. During a morning walk, Dan talked to the guy in the middle of this photo who owned 13 dogs!

After all that activity it was time for a test ride downtown and a little lunch.

This was the PLACE TO BE evidently but with a line a block long we head to a local Mexican cantina.

Gina took the healthy road . . .

While the rest of us had more ‘traditional’ Mexican cuisine. What to have for dessert . . . at just the right moment Taylor came by with her parents selling Girl Scout cookies. I bought two boxes of Tagalongs. Taylor is the top salesgirl in her troop!!! These cookie will never make it to the city limits of San Diego.

Good thing we took that test ride because I discovered I needed a new handlebar stem. The bars kept slipping down, even when severely torqued. Similar to what happened to emJay last year when she crashed in France! A quick stop at Bernie’s Bike shop and a new ‘slightly used’ Bontrager stem was procured, and installed, for $3.00!

Soon it was 3:00pm, 5:00pm CST, and time for a little happy hour on the veranda.

Dan had been out doing a little ‘training’ and soon joined some of the gang on the veranda for a little happy hour.

. . . and more ‘training’!

Soon we we’re all hungry and headed downtown for dinner. Everything was very busy so we settled om Monster’s for burgers.

. . . and another ‘training’ session!

Leslie did a great job taking care of us as we continued to ‘train’ as the rain that had predicted for the weekend started, coming down in sheets. After a 45 minute wait we were able to head to the liquor store, get some vino and head back to the room.

Tomorrow we start . . . and we’ll see what the ‘Big Ugly’ ends up being!