two vegans and a woof: Tour of CA- Stage 8

The night before this stage we drove the course to scope out a spot that would be good to watch- and possibly sleep. There were a few places where the race would come by on the same road twice. The area was similar to the day before- windy, up and down, dark, scary roads. They'd be fine to drive- but evryone else seems to know the roads like the back of their hands and they FLY... right up tailgating the hearse- passing us on the double yellow.... crazy. I mean- who sees a hearse on a dark mountain/canyon road and expects them to be going fast??

We found a turn off/look out spot that was fairly large- so if there was a crazy person driving the road and ran off- they wouldn't hopefully-hit us.. We parked between two big RVs (turns out all 3 RVs that were there were also there for the race). We spent today the same as the day before- hanging out for hours waiting for the race to come by. The spot was at a 180 turn, the peloton would both climb up and descend by it. The best part by far was watching them FLY-faster than the cars- down the mountain. All the follow cars were squealing tires trying to keep up and take the turn. They were going at least 50mph, if not more.