San Francisco here we come right back where we started from

no not the Golden Gate but near San Fran

can you see the bridge in the background yes it is the Golden Gate

our room in Monterey just lovely

the view from our room

We had planned to be at the registration office at 7:30am at opening time (I know what the?) but we didn't wake up till 7:30 ha ha so decided to go for a run and stretch out, it was a nice run with some short hills and we ran for 25mins.
Things seen on our run through Redding
a train
lots of homeless people

David phoned an insurance company to organise insurance for the bike.  We find the office.....eventually LOL and Julie organises our insurance fairly easily and then we head to the registration office and Andrea organises our rego...we are set and somewhat celebrities in the office ha ha.

we decide to have an early lunch at Cicada Cantina and are served by the lovely Alex, before riding to Monterey.

We stopped at Wendy's for a cuppa and got some bananas and apples ($2.49 cheap as) we adjusted our route to a less scenic one as we just wanted to get there!

Riding down to Monterey we ride right past Oakland where we started out. ha ha

It is another long day and we finally pull into the Monterey Hilton after dark.  We should have stayed here way back in 2000 but thought it would be too expensive, in hindsight we should have just forked out!!!  It was a beautiful room. Another late dinner but a much nicer one at the hotel restaurant goes down well with a beer.   After dinner we go to the spa which is sooo good after 7 hours on a motorcycle! Tried to facetime Jenny for her birthday but it wouldn't work.  The bed is very very comfy and I don't need much rocking!!!