Jim and Gayle were two weeks ahead of me in San Diego. I was sitting out a hailstorm in McDowell Mountain Regional Park when Jim sent the report that “Sprouts has 88 cent blackberries, beer flows from the tap, and the streets are paved with gold here.”   It was all I could do to keep from scrapping my Topo Map course and high-tailing it to San Diego two weeks earlier than planned.

But the one story they told that intrigued me more than anything was riding their bikes to a brewery! Continue reading →