Somehow I missed seeing this. Since you have put the trip off until next month, I can add my suggestions. Consider coming out our direction and staying in San Diego.
We love to park at Mission Bay and ride a loop there. You can pick from several to provide varying distances depending on how the gang feels. It is a flat ride. You can stop and play on the beach in the bay area (rent a paddle board, etc.). There is an area with tons of restaurants and you can spend some time at Belmont Park (and get a whopping huge ice cream there, which seems to be a popular reward for the recalcitrant riders). You also have the opportunity to take the ferry from the harbor to Coronado Island. It feels so fun to roll the bike on for the short trip. When you get off, there are plenty of choices for a snack/lunch. Then you head off to a bike trail that goes along the water. You usually get to watch some Navy Seals climbing their course. When you get back to the harbor, it is a short distance to a shopping/eating area. Lots of bike rental places if someone wants to test out an e-bike. Or grab a Lime scooter. There is so much to do in the area, you can easily plan a day of doing things besides biking - Tour the Midway in the harbor, go to the zoo (but you would want to plan a day), go to Balboa Park, go to Sea World. My son and his wife went whale watching out of San Diego harbor yesterday and saw a calf and a juvenile. >From San Diego you can also roll the bikes onto the Coaster and head up to one our beach towns for the day. On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 6:20:22 AM UTC-8, Surlyprof wrote: > > I agree with Toshi’s route. Pretty classic SoCal ride and a very casual > meander on protected bike trails. If you go the south direction, that > takes you through Manhattan, Hermosa and Redondo Beach areas. Just south > of that is the coast of Palos Verdes. That area is also nice but more > quiet residential community. There is a one-street “downtown” that has a > very nice coffee shop. A little bit farther south is the Wayfarers Chapel > which is a beautiful mostly glass church designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. > Worthwhile destination. > > John “Design Geek for a Living” McClusky -- 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.
