I can't recommend the Ventura-Ojai path enough. It's completely car free from the beach to Ojai, with just a few hundred feet on streets coming out of Ventura, and it's very easy riding, no hills—it's an old rail line. It is 15 miles up to Ojai, so depending on your yahoos' appetite to ride, it might be a lot (especially on the 15 back) but it's so, so beautiful up there and Ojai is a great place to have lunch and spend the day at the farmer's market or at Bart's Books, which bills itself as the world's greatest outdoor bookstore and that's not an exaggeration (see pics).
https://photos.app.goo.gl/1X5c1gmsZRDzWy4MA If you ever get there with people who want to ride for hours and like to climb dirt, you can veer off the path, cross 33 and go up Sulfur Mountain (then back down the other side, through Ojai the other way and return down the path to Ventura). It's unbelievably stunning up there because you can see clear to the ocean on one side and on the other across the Ojai valley to the Santa Ynez and the Topatopa moutains in Los Padres National Forest. I unfortunately didn't get a pic of that view last time I was up there but we did ride a short way off the trail and found an old bus completely burned out from the Thomas fire. The only downside to the 15 miles of the path is there's not all that much between Ventura and the outskirts of Ojai. There's a park a few miles up with bathrooms and water, but there's nothing commercial until you get back into town. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
