Kip: A complimentary resource to the ACA maps is Bicycling the Pacific Coast by Vicki Spring & Tom Kirkendell (The Mountaineers Books, Seattle). The commentaries are more detailed and the route is essentially the same: take Hwy 1 south.
Something to think about: crossing LA on a bicycle is a bit tedious, to say the least. I grew up in LA and have lived with heavy traffic all my life. For ease of navigation, most published routes across LA stick to the Pacific Coast Bike Route, aka SR 1, for the most part. Study this area carefully as there are more pleasant alternates with some minor adjustments, sometimes just being a couple of blocks off SR 1 (commonly referred to as PCH in the area). There is no camping between Malibu State Park (north of LA) and Doheny SP (southern OC). There is a new hostel in San Pedro called the South Bay Hostel. Of course, if you can get Warm Showers across this stretch that's the best solution. One caution on the Bicycling the Pacific Coast info: it's set-up as roughly 60 mile per day average. This may be challenging given the amount of climbing, esp for the kids. They do a good job of listing all the campgrounds along the way but only comment on the ones they've used. The ACA maps also have good info on services. We live in Orange County & could possibly help out, although we have no travel plans that far off. Contact me directly if you want to discuss in detail. Doug Peterson On Sunday, October 7, 2018 at 4:57:13 PM UTC-7, Kip Otteson wrote: > > My wife requested that we do a bike tour this upcoming summer. This is a > pretty rare request and when she mentioned it I jumped at the chance. I'm > planning on riding the Pacific Coast route as laid out by Adventure > Cycling. We are not doing the whole trip, but are going to be riding from > Southern Oregon and will be ending up in the OC. The crew will be me, my > wife, and two kids, daughter (12) and son (15). We have ridden a few tours > in SE Asia but nothing this long. Not remotely. I'll be on my Bombadil, > my wife on her Heron, and my son on a Surly Pack Rat, daughter on an 86' > Panasonic Mountain Cat 4500. We plan on being on the road from the 10th of > June till around the middle of July. We are both school teachers so this > is doable as far as work is concerned. Being teachers, we are on a budget > and plan on camping as much as we can. We have used Warm Showers in the > past and are hosts. That is a great deal, for sure. > > I'm looking for any suggestions from folks that have done this. Good > places to camp, words of advice on road conditions, etc. > > Thanks in advance. > > Kip > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
