Crossing over the state line into California everything seems a bit different. There was actually border control coming in from Oregon which suprised me. There are all kinds of things you're not supposed to carry between states, including fruit and veg so I thought I was going to get frisked for contraband bananas. We (I was cycling with Will and Douglas at this point) got waved down and the border guard told us some of his own cycling stories, gave us some keychain LED lights and sent us on our way which was quite nice.
The further we get into California the more hippyish the towns seem - lots of organic food places and hemp shops all over the place. The towns are also bigger (a lot of the places I passed through in Oregon had a population of about 300!). The campground we stayed at a couple of nights ago had a grocery shop outside that had a club night going on with a DJ (playing 100% Dynamite type music) and a ska band, this place was in the middle of nowhere! The shop owner had set up an agricultural dam full of water in his back garden so people could lie on it and watch shooting stars - it's like a huge water bed big enough for 10 people. The water was warm as it had been a sunny day, it was really quite relaxing to lie there (with the group I'm cycling with and various locals) and have a beer. I saw a shooting star too.
I have tonnes of good photos at this point - I'm going to put them online when I get to Brady's place in San Francisco which should be on Saturday.
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argh, I just wrote a big comment and then I had to log in and it's all gone
grrr
It went along the lines of: sorry you got wet again, glad its going well.
Not much doing here, but all good
Emma xx
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