Bicycle Touring

We cycled a section of the Pacific Coast Route (from Seattle to San Fransisco) in May 2019 and would like to share our thoughts on it. Overall, we loved our…

Date: Tuesday, May 28. Distance: 40 km. Route highlights: cute Californian towns, and the Golden Gate Bridge of course! Fairfax was a particularly lovely town, but we passed numerous other…

Date: Sunday, Monday. May 26, 27. Distance: 90 km. Route highlights: Tomales Bakery, Point Reyes, and Fairfax. The ride from Bodega Dunes to Samuel P Taylor was great, through hills…

Date: Friday, Saturday. May 24, 25. Distance: 125 km. Route highlight: Fort Ross, coastline, seals and pelicans. Last night felt quite wild. We heard crying coyotes and the guard dogs…

Date: Wednesday, Thursday. May 22, 23. Distance: 150 km. Route highlight: climbing after Leggett, and reaching the ocean again. The climb after the town of Leggett to 2000 feet was…

Date: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday (rainy rest day). May 19, 20, and 21. Distance: 175 km. Route highlight: avenue of the giants (redwoods). We had our favorite breakfast of bacon, eggs,…

Date: Thursday, Friday, Saturday (rest day). May 16, 17, and 18. Distance: around 130 km. Route: Mostly Highway 101, some beautiful secondary roads (such as old highway 101 through redwoods…

Date: Tuesday, Wednesday, May 14, 15. Distance: 105 km. Route: Mostly Highway 101, some secondary roads. Roads: low traffic, wide enough shoulders, great cycling. Tuesday morning we woke up to…

Date: Sunday, Monday, May 12, 13 – 2019. Distance: 130 km. Route: Mostly Highway 101, some secondary. Roads: low traffic, great cycling. Sunday we got to Denmark – not the…

Date: Thursday – Saturday, May 9, 10, and 11 – 2019. Distance: 185 km. Route: Mostly Highway 101, some secondary roads. Thursday was hot! 28 degrees Celcius. Moreover, we were…