{"id":4246,"date":"2014-08-25T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gonesouthblog.com\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2014-08-25T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T09:00:56","slug":"preparing-for-the-pch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/preparing-for-the-pch\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for the PCH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About a week after we returned from our adventure in Idaho<\/a>, I got a call from my friend Peter, who wanted to know if I would like to ride with him along the Paci\ufb01c Coast from Albany, Oregon, back to the Bay Area. To that I responded, “Heck yes!” as my Idaho politeness hadn’t yet been rubbed off by the cruel streets of San Jose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Although I said yes to the trip, I still needed to get the time off of work to go. Thanks to Conner, Scott, and John, who were able to cover my shifts, I wrangled 10 days off. Ten days to ride 650 miles sounds pretty good. That’s an average of 65 miles per day. On dirt, that would be a challenge. On sweet, smooth pavement with prevailing winds pushing us down the coast, that sounds like a leisurely roll. But we won’t have ten full days to ride. Oh no. Because Amtrak’s Coast Starlight leaves in the evening from the Bay Area and arrives mid afternoon in Albany, we’ll have eight days to ride back home. Eight days to ride 650 miles means we’ll need to average 81.25 miles per day. For some reason those extra 16.25 miles per day make my stomach churn just a little bit. Here’s a rough idea of what we’re planning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n