MLE: Tour of California

Thanks to a timely suggestion from Andy in Austin, we learned that the Tour of California was coming through San Francisco today. Monday's stage was Sausalito to Santa Cruz, which came across the Golden Gate Bridge and then along the beach on the Great Highway, coming within about two miles of our rental in SF.

We spontaneously declared this to be an MLE, to take advantage of the things happening in SF while we're here. So we got up early and took then N-Judah train down to the Great Highway, where we waited with many other soggy San Franciscans for the wet blur of the riders.


Before the riders, there were many police and other official vehicles, with lights a-flashing. A parent near us was heard to respond (after the umpteenth "is that them?"), "you'll know it's the cyclists -- they won't be blinking." We did get a good, if brief, view of the riders... there was a breakaway in progress, which was fun to see.



Then it was just a parade of team vehicles with gajillions of dollars of bikes on the roofs (though less than two days ago... sorry, Lance).


As Stepho said, the pros earned their money today. Despite our complaints of being wet and cold, we were able to quickly return back to the warmth of the house and fleecy garments.