Day Three Recap

What a day. We wound down through the mountain canyons from Victorville down to the San Gabriel Valley. Incredible scenery as you can see from these photos.


The sky was blue and it was perfect day to ride. We expected to spend more time climbing than we actually faced. It was great.


Part of our day included a stretch of the famous Route 66 - including this photo which was taken on a closed section of the road (sky is big in pasadena visitors have already seen this one). We also had to portage around some newly paved stretch of road, and improvise through an area that Google Maps didn't quite have figured out. By the way Google (I know you are reading this), when are you going to develop a bicycle direction feature?

We arrived in Lake Elsinore and didn't take long to find the ballpark - except when we arrived at 5:30, it sounded like the game had already started! We made a quick phone call and discovered that it was family night at the ballpark and the game had an early 6:00 start time. We rushed over to our hotel and showered and got back to the park as quickly as we could. We ended up missing the first inning and a half - a common theme as we had missed the first half of an inning of both previous games.


What a beautiful park. The Lake Elsinore Storm not only have the best selling cap in the minor leagues, but they also have one of the most beautiful places to play.


And our seats were excellent - just past third base, and in the front row - and we only paid $8. You gotta love minor league pricing!


Unfortunately the home team lost, 3-2 Which means that after three games the home team is a dismal 1-2 (one of those games being shortened due to the rain storm). This club seemed much more professionally run with nonstop mascots, music, and video board antics. It is the biggest ballpark of our trip, and will probably be the best attended game of our week. Needless to say we weren't too surprised that we weren't acknowledged like at the previous two games. But we continued to get amazing customer service from the staff of the California League.

We've got a shorter day ahead of us tomorrow, but we will have some hills to climb because L.E. is at a lower elevation than our next stop, San Bernardino.

Miles today - 91
Trip total - 261