April 16, 2024 - Ragged Point Inn and Resort, Ragged Point, California

 I am writing this in the hotel office.  There is no cell phone or wifi connections at the Ragged Point Inn & Resort, but it makes up for it in the coastal views, just amazing.  Two nights ago I stayed at a Howard Johnson/Wyndham Inn in Ridgecrest, California. It was a nice, old style motor inn that you can park in front of your room.

From there, yesterday I rode to the Ragged Point Inn, stopping for lunch at Robbin's Restaurant in Cambria, CA.  It was good, healthy food with a definite California vibe.  Next on the agenda was a stop at the Elephant Seal Vista Point.  The seals are massive and just lounge in the sun and sand on the beach. I was thinking the view point would be up on a high point in the road, but it was almost at ground level with the seals.  I could hear some of the males grunting and flipping sand on their backs.

I arrived at the hotel around 4:30 pm last evening pretty wiped out.  The ride was spectacular through grass covered rolling hills.  Today is a rest day for me.  Brother Ted is scheduled to arrive here late afternoon today.  Today he is flying from Denver to Burbank, picking up his new motorcycle and then riding here from Burbank. He also may have lunch in Burbank with an old high school friend before he heads up this way.

Tomorrow, Ted and I will ride to San Francisco where he is scheduled to have his new motorcycle serviced.  Not sure where will stay tomorrow night, but I think we both want to get out of the Bay Area up the coast a little.

Some California retirees enjoying the coastal scenery.  The live a little north of the SF bridge, but like it down in the Central Coast Area because it is more rural and laid back.

Elephant seals 

They look dead, but these elephant seals are all alive, grunting and flipping sand

Part of the coastal Highway 1 north of Cambria

View from the Ragged Point Inn & Resort, when it isn't foggy