I noticed last night that my rear tire is in extremely poor condition so I figured I would pick up some new tires in Santa Barbara. I found a bike shop easily enough and picked up a pair of new tires and a new tube to replace the patched tube I've been using since Green River Utah. I got the new tires on and then realized that the rear wheel was really wobbly. It was not noticeable with with the bald tire but the new tire scrapes up against the frame. To get a new wheel rebuilt would take about a week and I didn't want to buy a cheap wheel. So I have about a hundred miles left and I hope my bike makes it that far. At least I had two new tires that were fully inflated. For a short while at least. I went to do laundry after that and after riding the bike for only a few miles the front tire went flat. When I was putting on the front tire the first time I put it on backwards so when I went to fix it I wasn't paying as much attention and ended up putting the tube in without inflating it and must have messed it up. So after I thought I had two new wheels I had to replace the front tube with the patched tube I just took out of the rear tire.
Oh well, I got to spend the rest of the day in Santa Barbara which is a pretty cool town. On my way out of town I noticed that the bike patch gets really weird. It would follow the main road, then go off onto a bike patch, then it would dump you onto a back road with no signs. Then, I'd have to wander around until I found where the bike patch picked up again and that kept happening for a while. Eventually I got out of town and lost track of the bike path. I found a highway that parallels the interstate and just followed that for a while. It was not very biker friendly and I had no idea where I was by that point. Eventually I found Carpenteria and the state beach.
The beach apparently had a big problem with homeless people trying to sneak in so we got harassed by a cop late at night which was pretty funny. I'm less than 100 miles to LA so I'll probably make it there in a couple of days. There's two more state beaches with hike and bike spots so I'll spend the next two nights there then hopefully meet up with some friends in LA and start preparing for my trip to New Zealand.
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