I was worried about the wind on this almost flat open plane stage. It was really windy in the morning when I got up. I got out of town and I had wind coming exactly from the right side. Pretty soon I reached a mellow, left hand turn and the crosswind turned into slight tailwind. It stayed like that for a long time. At some point there was almost no wind, and when I was approaching the Pacific, I got north west wind, which was essentially headwind for the last 5 miles or so. Overall no interesting scenery on the stage and it was not very difficult.