Rode to Modesto.,..

The ride this morning was pretty good. We had a bit of climbing in the morning to get out of Groveland. The one major exciting part of the day was the hill we got to go down called Priests Grade. Now, we were told there are 2 hills to chose from, old priest grade and new priest grade. When we got up to the split we looked down old priest grade and it was crazy, at some points it can get to over 20% and is 3 miles long. The New Priest Grade which we went down was 6 miles long. Chance really enjoyed the ride, flying down and cutting corners as you could see 3 turns in front of you. I however, did not like it as much way too fast for me. So I took my time and took pictures along the way as well. Chance had to wait for me and was not too happy about it.. So we continued on our way! It was great to see the mountains start to dwindle, they didn't disappear but they got smaller so that is always good! The ride went fairly quick and the temps stayed nice with the wind so we were not boiled like other days. We stopped in Oakdale, CA for lunch at Denny's! Lunch was delicious and we continued to get more excited to almost be in San Francisco. Once we left Oakdale we were in city limits for the rest of the ride into Montrose. In Modesto we did our normal routine and hit up the library. The library is so packed that we had to wait to get a computer and then you only got it for 30 min. From there we headed to the tourist info center and talked with the lady there about camping. we were told there was no camping within the city area but we could ride another 30 miles. That was no sounding good so we made our way to the Motel 6. Once we were settled and showered Chance was very excited for his first taste of In and Out Burger. While he enjoyed it, it was not super great. After dinner we stopped by the gas station to pick up a few things headed back and got ready for out last day of riding on this crazy trip of ours