All the hype about the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) really seemed to be true. The coast was stunning and the size of the redwoods was hard to fathom.

The Shrine Drive-Thru Tree was certainly my first time driving a vehicle through a tree.

Somewhere in this entire process I worked out that the new battery I got was bad, putting it back onto the machine and nursing things was not going well. For some dumb reason I had held onto the old battery, started using that and my problems largely went away.

A lot of this coast looks like “the movies”, five different towns convinced me that “the birds” was shot there and I spent a lot of time getting off the machine just looking at huge trees.

Camping was interesting, the guy in the next tent over was pedaling himself down the PCH and waited a full 3 minutes before starting to feed the racoon that the signs said to not feed.

The next morning I was impressed at just how loud the seals were, they were making quite a fuss. Mile counts as very approximate as I dont remember where I camped. I am pretty sure it was on the coast if that helps :) I followed Chris Brock’s advice and enjoyed a refreshing Lost Coast Great White, It was very crushable and did the job.