summary of day 13

woke up to mixed feelings....sad and glad....as with the last 4 days this day is familiar from having done San Fransisco to San Diego at least a half dozen times....so then came the surprise of drizzle to rain to drizzle to rain with 25mph headwinds....this has never happened anytime previously....combine that with rush hour traffic through LA and Long Beach and I felt if I lived after the first 25 miles there's a chance I can finish the ride....dicey conditions....after about 30 miles the rain stopped but the wind did not....in fact it was headwind the whole day....by Laguna Beach, 50 miles to go the sun can out....through Dana Pt, San Clemente and then through the USMC base, Camp Pendleton....at the base, with about 25 miles to go it hit me...or I allowed it to hit...I had a flood of emotion difficult to explain....but I quickly suppressed it with too many miles still to go....under 5 miles left and the emotion returned....and when the day and the ride was over I realized that the whole thing is going to take some time to sink in....104 miles for the day....