After sleeping in ’til 6am, we went to L’il Sambo’s for breakfast hoping the rain would stop. No such luck. We packed our wet tents and headed south. As the photos show, the coastline (Boiler Bay shown) is beautiful as … Read the rest
To the coast
Today we rode from our camp at Dovre to Lincoln City, a distance of 63 miles. The more significant fact is that we also climbed about 3700 feet, which is similar to climbing La Cumbre Peak. We are worn out … Read the rest
Downtown towers to towering trees
After a “not worth writing home about” breakfast at Denny’s, we went to River City Cycles to replace my broken spoke. Jesse gave us a map and instructions for a great route to the pacific. To make up time, we … Read the rest
Adversity, aches, & Advil – a.k.a. Double trouble “rubber legs”
We woke with the sun to the sound of hundreds of bike cleats “click clacking” on the pavement.
As you can see in the photo, we rode thru the tiny rural town of Winlock with it’s famous “worlds largest egg”. … Read the rest
100 down, 100 miles to go in the STP
We rode 4 miles to the start at U of W and stopped at Greenlake to eat our usual oatmeal and turbo coffee. We jettisoned our bags (actually, gave them to the SAG truck) and we started as the last … Read the rest
Thunder, blunders, and wonder
After a good night sleep at Steve’s friend Linda’s house, we drank 3 pots of coffee and watched it pouring rain while looking at the weather report showing “partly cloudy “. We played with Linda’s kitten named “cheddar” while we … Read the rest
Sleepy in Seattle
We finally made it to Seattle! The view from the train was great, the food, not so much (and overpriced). I met one guy on the train that had a video camera pointed out the window the whole time.
I … Read the rest
Ready Riders are off
We packed the bikes in required boxes and loaded them and paid the $5 fee. We met a rider named Matthew who just rode from Seattle to Santa Barbara solo in ~1 month. We shared a few stories and he … Read the rest
Our schedule & plan
We leave on the Amtrak train from Santa Barbara tomorrow (July 11) at noon and arrive in Seattle 36 hours later. That’s a long time, but I have movies and books on my iPad and we can walk around. The … Read the rest
Mike’s packing list and weight (bike+packs)
Packing list for bike trip Seattle to San Francisco
Weight: We weighed it on Saturday. My bike is 33 lbs with just racks, light,toolbag plus my packs are 37 lbs for a total of 70 lbs
bike shoes
walking shoes… Read the rest