Completing the fifteenth day of the tour is a bit of a balancing act. While the distance between Santa Monica and San Diego is only about 140 miles, those who are familiar with LA traffic know well that driving across town might turn into an urban adventure. Which way? It depends on your riding style and courage. If you hit rush hour traffic in LA, which spans from 3pm to who knows when, you'd be left with two options. You can try to sneak through the endless line of jammed cars (lane splitting is allowed in CA) or you can try burn your clutch and patience by inching with the cagers. Since none of these seemed to be attractive enough for us, we opted out of the rush hour commute and scheduled the day accordingly. That's where balancing skills come into play. Half of the group was familiar with LA, the other half were first time visitors. Since we did not want to spend more than one night here, we chose to check out Santa Monica Pier, visit the most iconic part of LA, Hollywood and get out of the city before afternoon traffic emerges. In order to provide the newbies with some authentic LA flavor, we connected the Santa Monica Pier and Hollywood by riding Sunset Blvd. all the way from the seashore, which also incorporates Beverly Hills and Sunset Strip as well.
Approaching San Diego we broke off of Interstate 5 as soon as we could and rode along the seashore towns. The timing worked out well, we arrived to our accommodation after sunset but before dark.
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