Another beautiful sunny morning in California as we regrouped outside our hotels for today's journey.

We rode as group slowly through the heart of Palo Alto turning lots of heads, across the Dunbarton
Bridge and then up into the beautiful Niles Canyon Road.  Lots of twisty and quiet back roads until we
popped out back into civilisation at our morning destination - biker heaven, Arlen Ness.

It's the first year we have been able to stop here and they put on a fantastic welcome with cake and
drinks, and some incredible shopping specials!  The showroom was full of the incredible custom
motorcycles Arlen is so famous for, as well as his custom designed motor clothes.

Highlight of the stop was when the man himself came out and we had a group photo with him in the
showroom.

Then we were back on the bikes and cut quickly back out of the suburbs back into more gorgeous twisty
canyon roads, views across reservoirs from the tops of ridges, and small stands of redwoods before our
lunch stop at Moraga.

A quick bite to eat, and then our last stretch into Benicia - 20 more miles of lovely back roads, before a
quick 8 mile stretch of freeway and over the huge  Benecia bridge before arriving at our hotel.

Tonight was free chilli dog night at the hotel - conditions at the back of the group may be hazy tomorrow ; )

A quick heads up for those planning to meet us at the finish at Crissy Field on Saturday - we've just found
out this week that our arrival will coincide with Fleet Week and the Blue Angels flying over San Francisco. 
Several million people are expected to converge on Crissy Field that day and we aren't sure that we will be
able to get into the City through the traffic.

We are working on an alternative final destination for Saturday and will keep you posted.