Is That Cheating?

Day: 94

This morning Aaron was heading north up PCH to catch the 101 home, and I was just heading north to the great whatever. The difference is that he has a car and I was sick of biking these monstrous hills on a windy mountainous road with no shoulder. Guess who tossed his bike in the back of Aaron’s Civic and hitched a ride to just north of Monterey? That’s right. Me. I still haven’t decided how to judge this situation, a 30 mile short cut was nice on my legs, but did it sacrifice the integrity of my journey? That’s what I said too. There hasn’t been any integrity so far, why start now.

Just after nine Aaron and I split up and he headed south to his new apartment that he moves into tomorrow and his new job at Nick on a new cartoon. He is days away from starting “adulthood”, I told him I’d call on Monday night and ask what it’s like, because I sure don’t know. I continued my running away from adulthood by pedaling another thirty miles or so to New Brighton State Beach, just outside of Capitola. I set up camp (happy to only be paying $5 again) and decided to spend the day doing what I really love doing on Fridays, going to the movies. I asked the ranger and he sent me a couple of miles away to a small theater just outside the Capitola mall (which by the way also had a Starbucks for blogging). I blogged and played online for an hour or so while I waited for The Break-Up to start.

After the film I made my way back towards the beach to have sushi at a small restaurant I passed on my way to the theater. I wandered the tourist area of Capitola for a while until last few nights heavy drinking started to catch up with me and I went back to camp for a relaxing evening. I even visited the forest rangers campfire program with all the kids and sung a few campfire songs before bed.