April 15th marks the beginning of my 2010 bike touring season.
I'll be flying to San Francisco, CA and biking down the Pacific Coast Bicycle Route to San Diego, CA. I'll then turn my bicycle east and head towards Phoenix, AZ and fly back home.
It's about 1,100 miles total and I'll have about 13 days of bike travel.
Between the ACA maps and the book "Bicycling the Pacific Coast" I shouldn't get lost too much right? Skimming through the book there appears to be a lot of places to get out of the saddle and hike around. This should be very doable seeing the daily average miles need be only around 85 miles/day.
Such attractions along this route:
Golden Gate Bridge, Anu Nuevo State Reserve, Natural Bridges State Park, Big Sur, McCay Canyon, Hearst Castle, Pismo Sand Dune Reserve, Yuha Desert, Chocolate Mountains....just to rattle off a few attractions.
I'll be using my usual bike set up: Fuji Roubaix with the bolt on seat post rack. This will encourage me to pack light.
I've been training as much as this winter season allows and already feel very strong on the bike despite the relatively low miles I've been able to put in....
Another month and a half to clean up bike, put on new chain, cables, etc and continue training and making of flexible itinerary. .....
