Day 45 - June 30 - Los Banos, CA

I woke up and had an idea about how to fix my rear brake. I took a part from my front brake and put it on the rear and it was enough so I felt comfortable riding the next 30 miles into Merced. I got into Merced and got the brakes fixed up so I feel a lot safer now. I wandered around town for a bit and found a visitor's center. That was probably a good idea because I was going to take highway 152 over to Hollister but I was told that would be too dangerous and I was given an alternate route. However, that ruined my plans for the night because there was a park on that highway I was going to camp at. The lady at the visitor's center called around and there were no good options in Merced to sleep for the night so I continued on to Los Banos to see what I could find around there. I got into the town and it didn't look very promising, it was bigger than I thought and there were no signs of a campground or RV park. I wandered around for a bit and found a fire station and went inside to ask if there was anything nearby. There were a lot of really nice people there and I got directions to a campground about seven miles from town. No one really knew if they had showers there so they let me take a shower at the station. We talked for a bit and I ended up just sleeping at the station for the night. It ended up being an awesome night, I really needed a shower and everyone at the station was really cool. I talked to a lot of the guys and talked about my trip. It was nice to spend some time relaxing in the air conditioning and I got a lot of good advice and directions.