Not the most difficult, but a classic one with a lot of famous names and a very important and many times used for west coast bike riders - the ride on PCH - Pacific Coast Highways.

As we returned from Boise have a nice gravel ride there, i was on the my way back home haveing one more day in the area of Los Angeles. We arrived pretty early from Idaho and it was sunday. It was time to do a last ride in California after my 3 week stay hitting a lot of touristic places.

Having done the day before Mt. Baldy questioned to me if i do another longer ride to keep the pace or doing a recovery ride. It was a bit both but still landing over 100k.

After Palomar on the first weekend and going south it was on the second weekend time to do a classic and famous ride which is also included into Tour of California. It was time to do Glendora Mt Road and Mt Baldy.

Having some warm up rides the first week my first week was here and it was time for a long distance with some altitude. My first target was Palomar Mountain the top of a mountain line towards San Diego and about 50 miles inland.

Returning for another visit in our office in San Clemente CA and staying for 3 1/2 week in the US it was clear that this time Betty joins me on my trip as an effective training was needed to get ready for our transalp tour in June.

After saturday´s 130k ride towards the inland i decided to drive by car to Carlsbad and start a straight down to San Diego. One reason because i´m not alowed to ride a bike in a military zone.

As i had taken over the B2B Business in our US office i needed to travel to San Clemente considering to get a few training rides already in February.

One more day to go and holidays unfortunately will end - the last chance to do a ride. Like everywhere sunday is riding day. And so i saw a bunch of riders on PCH that day.

After a lot of travelling during our family stay on the west coast in USA, we reached our AirnB home in Dana Point. My first experience ride there was taking me to Laguna Beach.

Heading out to Boise in Idaho for a distributors inhouse exhibition gave us as a sales team the chance to do a bit of team building in taking some time for a CX loop.

The show is over - lets start the show. A nice saying and used many times. This time the house show of our moto distributor ended successfully and the SP team including Brian, Rick and me headed towards Chicago. Our flights were booked for the next day and so we had to stay one night in the Windy City at lake Michigan - unfortunately ;-)

After the long ride the day before i was not sure if i should even ride. My sun burn was aching and i knew it would not be a long ride.

My second route i decided to do along the big Mississippi River starting in west direction. I was a sunny day and temp was nice for april.

My wife Andrea and me were travelling to USA to attend the World Balloon Convention as she has a balloon shop and is offering decorations for different occasions. Therefore she needed to go to "school" to become a certified balloon artist.

New year - new luck; that could have been the story around this ride together with our sales manager Brian in the surroundings of Las Vegas.

In front of an Exhibition held by one of our motorcycle distributors we had to see to keep our training in progress. So we took an early bird before the first show day.

It was August and our Motorcycle Distributor invited us for NVP - a house exhibition held in the convention center in Madison in Wisconsin. Brian, our US nat sales manager, and i approached from the twin cities in Minnesota after a meeting with our bicycle distributor.