We were soon into the rolling hills of Malibu...sometimes with expensive houses on both sides of us but many times with the Pacific Ocean on our right. This whole trip Sharla has been looking for whales and dolphins. She finally saw several dolphins swimming along today. First blessing of the day. We stopped at a grocery store in Malibu to get a mid-morning snack of danish and juice (can do that sort of thing now that we don't have mountains to climb). Sharla stayed outside watching the bikes while Ed bought the goodies. She was soon entertained by a homeless guy who called himself Freddie the Singer. He said he was a song writer and sang a cute song about a turkey who took diet pills before Thanksgiving and ended up putting the farmer out of business when he sold the diet pills to the other turkeys. He said he may be homeless but he lives in Malibu! At the end of Venice Beach we were looking for a place to eat and were looking at a menu at Thomas Hamburgers when a man out front asked about our bikes. When he found out about our journey he told a guy next to him to give us whatever we wanted. We told him he didn't have to do that but he told us he was Thomas and he owned the restaurant and we could have whatever we wanted. Ed had some excellent fish tacos and Sharla had the best gyro we have ever had. We found out he immigrated to LA 40 years ago from Greece and now has several businesses in LA. Our 2nd blessing. We continued on a wonderful 20 mile ride on a paved beach bike path and the miles went by very quickly. After arriving in Redondo Beach, a lady told us where we could get a reasonably priced motel and also about an excellent wharf restaurant that had a great early bird special. We got a motel and cleaned up in time to catch the special. When the waitress found out about our journey, she treated us to a free dessert--chocolate mousse. Another blessing.
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