Ventura is only an hour north of LA, but the riding is pretty good. There is a Rail trail, 15mi from the coast up to Ojai. Both Ventura and Ojai can make for a copacetic family vacation day with plenty of walking, hiking and shopping etc. Next stop North is Santa Barbara, IMO a bigger version of what we have here. From there taking hwy 150 over the mountains to Los Olivos and Solvang is a nice stop with some ok local riding. After that you can stop in San Luis Obispo, and or work up through all of the coastal towns before Big Sur: Pismo, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria etc. all make great stopping points. If you are driving through Big Sur it could be good to plan a meal at something like Nepanthe, Lunch can be a bit more on budget than the dinners, but the location is out of this world and I doubt you and the family would regret the experience. After that you get to Monterey, a great little town with some bike paths and nice coastal bike rambling turf.
You may get the idea that we have it pretty good here, and that a week will shoot buy. THe list above is pretty broad, and it is hard to go wrong. If you have specific stops on the list let me know and I can throw in a bit more detail Rob On Thursday, June 5, 2014 7:32:45 PM UTC-7, Meade Anderson wrote: > > I have a week and plan on driving the coast pretty much the whole way... > > Thanks for the comments and sorry for the slow response, its been fairly > crazy trying to wrap up work, the home front, planning, folding the > BikeFriday this evening...etc... > > > > On Sunday, 1 June 2014 22:54:17 UTC-4, Anne Paulson wrote: > >> How do you plan to drive? The usual way is the tedious, yet fast, inland >> route. But AFAIK that doesn't take you close to any good notable riding >> spots. >> >> The California Coast is wonderful from about Half Moon Bay (just south of >> San Francisco) to Morro Bay (south of Big Sur). Maybe the very best is Big >> Sur, which stretches more or less from Carmel to San Simeon. >> >> I can give you lots of loops that involve the section of the coast >> between Half Moon Bay and Monterey, if you can be more specific about where >> you might be and what kind of ride you want to do: how long, how hilly. >> >> >> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Meade Anderson <meade.a...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hey >>> >>> I'll be on a bit of a family vacation driving from LA to SF and a bit >>> north starting around the 15th of June and will have my folding Bike Friday >>> in tow so I hope to get in a casual ride or two along the coast. Are >>> there any recommendations for cheap/interesting hotels or camping spots >>> south or north of SF. How about sections for a ride along the coast? >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any recommendations... >>> >>> meade....fixing lunch for a country ride... >>> >>> -- >>> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> -- Anne Paulson >> >> It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. >> > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
