Here is a photo collection with 1 photo from every day of our trip, and overview map of our route. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_baler/albums/72157657190741086
Jon Ellicott City, MD On Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at 7:23:28 PM UTC-4, Kip Otteson wrote: > > We looked at almost that same route. I am a little freaked about the > traffic, but I do feel that if we are spooked too often we can figure out > another option. That's the trouble with kids. I want them to have > adventures but I also want them to be alive! So far they are alive, but I > hate to have to worry about it. I guess we'll just have to see. The thing > I think about is how much traffic we road in in Chiang Mai and how well > they did. We've all been hit by cars but it was at slow speeds. The cars > in the US really rip along. I'm just rambling, but I appreciate your > advice! > > On Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at 12:35:04 PM UTC-6, Jon BALER wrote: >> >> Back in 2015, my wife, a friend, and I did a 5 week tour from Vancouver >> to San Louis Obispo. We primarily followed the Adventure cycling and book >> routes, but departed west from Portland to hook up with the Cascades route, >> took that south to Crater Lake, and then back to the coast for the last bit >> of Oregon. We also took a detour to Sonoma county before reaching San >> Francisco. It was just under 1800 miles. >> >> Some thoughts: >> >> - Highway 1 has pretty heavy traffic in places on the CA coast. Not >> sure it would be suitable for a family tour. I was almost taken out by >> an >> RV mirror, but otherwise it wasn't terrible. Definitely helpful to have >> a >> mirror. >> - The climp up Bear camp road back to the coast in Oregon can be >> quite long and hot with no water in the summer. We paid a rafting >> company >> to shuttle us. >> - We ended our tour in SLO, after hearing the remaining journey to LA >> wouldn't be great. I recall hearing quality of campsites would be an >> issue. >> - Going inland in Oregon to Hood River, Cascade Lakes, Bend/Sisters, >> and Crater Lake was awesome and had many highlights of the trip. >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at 11:10:47 AM UTC-4, Clayton wrote: >>> >>> I did a three week tour of the Canadian Islands around Victoria island >>> on the west coast. I really enjoyed it. No litter, nice people, great >>> scenery and camping. Traffic was light and polite. The pastries are >>> something I will always remember. Great bakers. It was a slow paced tour >>> with rather low mileage as the islands are not that big. We explored an >>> island for a couple of days, and then took a ferry to another. VERY >>> enjoyable. >>> >>> Clayton >>> DDD >>> >> -- 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.
