It's becoming increasingly clear that other people ride "gravel" for very different reasons than I do. If it can't be done with 1:1, it doesn't need to be done at all. Period.
I spent 2+ hours of marvelous leisure this morning, tooling around in the Santa Ana River basin, because the wind is constant +12mph from the WNW and I really don't feel like fighting it.
We've got our very own inland sea all of a sudden.