We leave San Clemente on the world’s widest cycle path.

We’re approaching our destination: the border is about 20 miles south of San Diego.

We pass SONGS: San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Some environmental groups refer to this as Fukushima USA, as it’s in a tsunami zone and the station is right on the beach.

The bike route now passes through an active US Marine Corps base, Camp Pendleton.

We pass through a checkpoint where our passports are inspected by the military police. They’ve got rules, also. Sometimes they close the path, and then you have to ride down Interstate 5, which I imagine is a bit like riding down the M4. It’s open today, though.

The road is deserted apart from cyclists, and often quite ropey. There’s a good bit, though, where they’ve resurfaced it so they can practice landing aircraft on it. There are a lot of helicopters flying around, and muffled gunfire from over the hills.

We finally pop out of the camp in Oceanside and have a cup of coffee in the Nautical Bean.

From Oceanside, we ride past another lot of beaches and eventually into Carlsbad.

Past another power station, and our day is done.

Tomorrow, San Diego. Two days to the border.
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