Stage 4 finish - San Luis Obispo

Drove along the scenic highway 1 through Big Sur, ahead of the race (by about 1-2 hours), to catch the finish in SLO today. Interesting to see the markers for distance (eg. 25 km to go), plus the sprint and KOM markers ... plus all the photographers staking out vantage points at all the most scenic areas (pics will follow later, takes too long to upload everything via wireless).

Exciting sprint finish, all I could tell as they went by was that Ciolek was in the lead and Bettini was close. And afterwards, we were looking around to see where the team cars were and figuring everyone had left - then noted a Discovery car and a Quick Step car so we hung around and managed to catch Leipheimer (race leader) and Bettini (stage winner) after doping control and press conferences...