Tomorrow, the BIG Big Sur...

Supposedly today was an easy day in our guide book. Flat terrain, only 50 miles, a good portion of it included bike paths. However, the dynamic duo struggled towards the end and admitted to being more fatigued than seemed appropriate. Which is what makes me some what apprehensive about the road ahead. It's a "difficult" day according to the pacific coast biking bible (which, like the real bible, contains a lot of questionable material)... meaning some serious elevation gain and loss all damned day.
We'll take it slow if we have to! Not cycling for three days seems to render one immediately out of shape so we'll probably need to take our time. Our truly excellent bike tour angel of the moment, mama Tracy, (who has already taken us out to sushi, slack packed us to Carmel, allowed us to make it to Brooke's boyfriend's b-day party, and is now threatening to treat us to a hotel tomorrow night!) will be driving us back to our starting point tomorrow morning at the butt crack of dawn. Giving us plenty of time to stop halfway up these hills and weeze until we can give them a second go. (I could be only speaking for myself, so as long as that's what I'm doing, I'll probably have to take nose bleed breaks as well.)
If anyone reads this tomorrow, think posi-thoughts for us (some suggestions: "strong knees!" "no traffic!" "lots of downhill!")

It's been a while since I've gone into list mode so I'll leave you with this:

Most Memorable Roadkill to Date:
1. Today: a white snowy owl with tan markings... and i'll admit that the first thing that went through my head was "Oh man, Hedwig!"
2. An entire family of raccoons strewn across the highway. It was a massacre, and seeing as it was pre-raccoon theft night, it made me the saddest of any roadkill scene yet.
3. Post raccoon theft night, a comically posed raccoon that Chuck gave a celebratory fist in the air as he passed it.
4. A weird baby ferret-ish looking thing that even Christina could not identify... as I rode by it I thought it looked like something from Ren & Stimpy.
5. A fox. That's it. They're just kind of cool, so I was bummed it was dead.