Manny: A week and a half is way too fast for Seattle to the Bay Area. Depending on routing and whether or not you visit the San Juan Islands, a week goes by quickly in Washington, and the Oregon coast is most of another week. The border to the Bay Area is worthy of 5-6 days as well. This assumes no days off and ticking off 50-60 miles per day. If you start island hopping, allow a couple of days per island.
This is world class touring country so don't try to do too many miles and wind up skipping side trips. Heck, when you think about it, a bike tour is all one big side trip. Make sure you enjoy it. The Adventure Cycling maps are well routed, and combined with the guides others have mentioned you can come up with a great trip. For getting there, look into one-way rental cars. You can score great deals on rentals between major airports (e.g., SFO to SEATAC) but youu gotta be a bit careful what you get. During the summer they get lots of people flying in to one place and dropping the car off elsewhere. It just depends on who has cars stacking up when you want to go. Did the San Juans, Olympic Peninsula and Oregon coast down to Florence a couple of years ago in July & August and had zero rain days. dougP On Jul 9, 8:11 pm, Manuel Acosta <manueljohnaco...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Figure it's just about time to get ready for touring season. Tommy and I > are planning to train/bus/drive/fly (we haven't really figured this part > out) up to Washington and biking down to San Francisco. Looking to try to > do it in a week and a half. Anyone have any suggestions on routes or things > to see? Also curious about the weather while riding down, musa splat > weather? Basically going off the fly and just winging it for this tour. > -Manny -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
