Again the early morning mist and fog at the camp site that was between a golf course and the beach.
We rode our bicycles off as the fog was lifting and past some interesting jagged peaks called the 7 sisters which were old long since dormant volcanic peaks.
.......south along the coast to another beach town, Pismo beach.
....complete with a foggy beach and some hopeful sunbathers.
Next we climbed a moderate hill and up onto a flat plateau with some incredible farmland. There were a few small towns populated totally by very friendly and seemingly very hard working Mexican Americans. I just loved the little town of Guadalupe where I chatted up some locals to learn that the grew a wide variety of fruits and vegetables.
They seemed to be a very family oriented happy community of people, hard working and definitely proud to be Americans.
The soil was very black and when I looked closely not loamy and filled with organic matter the way I usually thought of fertile soil to be, but dark and almos volcanic.
There were numerous fruit stands just loaded with fresh fruit, oranges, nectarines, avocados, strawberries and others.
We climbed out of the valley and over some low hills to our next night's stay in a hotel in Lompoc.
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