My Next Trip: Riding A Bike Down The Pacific Coast
I’m ready to hit the road again.
In the past couple weeks, I’ve run across some amazing airfare deals. I found a flight to Buenos Aires for $300 round trip and a number of flights to various Caribbean destinations for about $200 to $300 round trip.
But those didn’t really interest me. Actually, they really interested me, but I’ve been wanting to explore the United States a bit this summer.
So instead I’ve booked a plane ticket to Seattle for Monday, July 27. From there I’ll be meeting up with my good buddy Derek and heading to Vancouver, equipped with some camping gear and a road bike. From Vancouver, we’ll be biking about 1,900 miles down the Pacific Coast, through Washington, Oregon, and California, all the way to the Mexican border.
A rough idea of our route
Although we’re going to camp the whole way down, I’ll have a Dell Mini netbook with me and will be posting updates as I go, as will Derek. Coming soon, before we head out, will be my gear list.
In preparation, I’ve hardly biked more than 35 miles at a time over the past month and have taken one bike repair class, which happened to also be my first ever. Before deciding to do this, neither Derek nor I had ridden a bike more than twice in a few years. I haven’t camped outside in about 10 years.
This’ll be fun.