Felt fine the day after the ride. The rainy weather in the night began after midnight. I slept pretty well, as usual, right after I laid down, then I was up and listening to the rain for a while. Waited for a lull in the showers, then I jogged over to the bathroom and back, enduring the light mist but not getting rained on. Got a little bit of sleep after I was back in the tent. I got up around 6-ish, and Mike and Jason were already up and starting to pack up his camper tent (pretty cool design, sits on the top of his truck bed and keeps him off the ground). Joe was a little slower getting up and ready. I got the cooking stuff out, and Mike ended up doing the lion's share of breakfast preparation - pancakes (in the shape of Lake Cachuma), eggs, sausages, and leftover chicken/beans/rice from the previous evening meal. They all liked the French press coffee, I skipped it since it was not decaf. Had a banana, orange, yogurt, couple of pancakes, and some milk. Then we started breaking camp. The tent was really wet, and the tarp was wet and dirty. We shook the tent out as best as possible and let the tarp dry while we were packing up the rest of the stuff in the car. Both pairs of shoes I brought were wet, so I had to endure walking around (and driving home) with wet feet. It was a little frustrating to me that I wasn't as aligned with Joe on getting on the road as soon as feasible. I would be packing stuff up and looking over to him, and he would be talking with one of the others. But that's Joe. We ended up getting on the road around 9:45, not too bad but we could have been rolling at 9:00. We had some light rain showers while we were breaking camp, but the sun came out near the end and allowed us to dry stuff off. The sun shade Joe brought ended up being a Godsend, since we would have been miserable otherwise, cooking out in the open and eating in the tents. Some rain on the drive home but not so much. Joe and I, as usual, had a good conversation ranging across a number of topics, including the advantages/perils of fracking and the challenges of generative AI in education. Back to Joe's house, where Ann picked me up along with all of the camping stuff and leftover food. When we got home, it took a while to unpack and lay out the rain flap and tent, which were wet from the weekend. I spread them on the garage floor and hoped for the best in drying them out. It also took a while to unpack my personal stuff, including all the bike stuff and food. Then it was a quiet rest of the day and evening.
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