Group Cruise: Carpinteria to Santa Paula This Sunday Morning May 18th

[Ganthrithor]

I'm up and headed to grab a morning snack on my way down to C&C. See you guys in a bit!

[P@ul]

Had to get gas, half way there!

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[Ganthrithor]

Been at c&c since 8-- haven't seen any of you guys. Anyone coming?

[DGMlJDlBRZ]

Just got here at Rincon Beach Park...

[Wayne]

Originally Posted by Ganthrithor

Been at c&c since 8-- haven't seen any of you guys. Anyone coming?

Originally Posted by DGMlJDlBRZ

Just got here at Rincon Beach Park...

Well, actually, our 86 cruise -- the first multicar meet in the Ventura/Santa Barbara County area? -- went pretty much right on schedule. Five cars met at the Rincon, and we caravanned up to Cars & Coffee. I had what might have been a near-miss encounter with the CHP as I set up for a brisk left turn from Via Real onto the old Santa Claus Lane underpass, then realized that a black-and-white was around the corner under the freeway, writing a ticket for an SUV. I overbraked into the turn, hitting a little patch of sand and getting a small tailwag. At the next corner we discovered that Padaro Lane was closed to thru traffic, and all five of us had to U-turn and parade back by the glaring CHiPPy.

We went first to Montecito's Upper Village, thinking they'd permanently moved Cars & Coffee there for more parking. WRONG! We zipped back to Coast Village Road, met Julian [aka Ganthrithor], checked out the exotic hardware and buzzed back to Rincon on CA-192 -- really fun except for a few miles stuck behind a woman on a touring motorcycle that probably outweighed her by a factor of 4 or 5. She refused to pull over, but we finally got a couple of clear passing zones, and had a little bit of fun before we got back to the beach and met Jermaine [aka DGMlJDlBRZ]. Here's a snapshot just before we took off for Santa Paula; not shown is the one-day-old Focus ST that was part of our group until Erik [aka kurbkilla] and Zach turned off to Ventura at CA-33. The SLK280 is our friend Stephen's; the 86 sect was represented by three FR-Ss and two BRZs.

We got pretty lucky for almost the whole route on CA-150, with very little interference for swooshing through the fun parts, especially climbing Dennison Grade, before cruising downtown Santa Paula and stopping for lunch at Tia Babe's. Was this a really FUN way to spend a mid-Spring Sunday morning? I'm not telling you; you'll have to come find out for yourselves, maybe the next time we do this sort of thing...

[Ganthrithor]

< Julian here. This morning was a lot of fun! The roads were a little more crowded than usual, but we really lucked out getting Dennison Grade all to ourselves (and the traffic after that was moving pretty quickly too!). It was fun meeting you guys: hopefully we'll do this again sometime!

[Kevinmp7]

Had a great time and I hope we can do this again. Sorry that I couldn't join you guys for lunch as I had a little family emergency to tend to. I think Ganthrithor's suggestion for a cruise up highway 33 would be our next meetup. Like Wayne stated, this would probably be in mid to late July. That gives us a lot of time to plan and get the word out.

[DGMlJDlBRZ]

<<< Jermaine here. Thanks for letting me tag along guys! Had a blast zooming through the 150. Thought I wasn't gonna make it through the whole way with a couple close calls with opposite traffic lol. Can't wait for the next one!

[kurbkilla]

Erik here.

Originally Posted by Wayne

really fun except for a few miles stuck behind a woman on a touring motorcycle that probably outweighed her by a factor of 4 or 5. She refused to pull over, but we finally got a couple of clear passing zones, and had a little bit of fun before we got back to the beach and met Jermaine

This.

That lady was a pain, and we could see her looking in the mirror at us, so she knew we were there and wanted to get around her; but she just would not pull over.

Anyways hopefully next time there wont be as many people on the road and I could bring my car.

[P@ul]

Thanks for organizing! It was fun to try some new roads out in SB. I'll definitely stay tuned for the next one!

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[kevin.nguyen]

I'm willing to go next time, I'm from Santa Barbara!