Starting location: Calistoga Village Inn & Spa, Calistoga, CA Ending location: Home. Davis, CA End of day cumulative mileage: 992.2 With my legs well rested from the spa I packed up my belongings and started my last day of riding. From Calistoga there was a short ride down Silverado Trail road back to highway 128. From…

Starting location: Vagabond Inn, Ukiah, CA Ending location: Calistoga Village Inn & Spa, Calistoga, CA End of day cumulative mileage: 921.7 Today’s riding was supposed to be pretty easy and uneventful. My plan was to continue down highway 101 until it hit highway 128. Highway 128 is basically my road home. It takes me through Sonoma…

Starting location: Standish-Hickey State Park Ending location: Vagabond Inn, Ukiah, CA End of day cumulative mileage: 859.4 I woke up this morning and stared up at the clear blue sky framed by the redwood trees above my hammock. Sleeping in a hammock has its advantages. I had figured out a way to protect myself from bugs.…

Starting location: National 9 Inn, Fortuna, CA Ending location: Standish-Hickey State Park End of day cumulative mileage: 787.5 With my front rack broken I would need to send home two panniers and one trunk rack worth of gear home. So this morning the first thing I did was figure out which gear I didn’t need anymore.…

Starting location: The Palm Motel, Orick, CA Ending location: National 9 Inn, Fortuna, CA End of day cumulative mileage: 712.5 After over a week on the road on my bicycle braving rain, fog, and wind, I actually kind of miss work. Well not really the work part of work, but the fact that I’d be sitting…

Starting location: Pacific Sunset Motel, Brookings, OR Ending location: The Palm Motel, Orick, CA End of day cumulative mileage: 649.1 This morning I was awoken by the sound of Harleys revving up. 6am. What the heck. What kind of biker gang wakes up at 6am?! They were actually not a biker gang, probably just a group…

Starting location: Battle Rock Motel, Port Orford, OR Ending location: Pacific Sunset Motel, Brookings, OR End of day cumulative mileage: 582.7 I woke up this morning, looked out the window and saw that it was raining again. As I checked out of the crappy motel, I met another cyclist, a pleasant older gentleman on his way…

Starting location: Umpqua River State Park Ending location: Battle Rock Motel, Port Orford, OR End of day cumulative mileage: 526.5 If I remember correctly from my Greek mythology, Achilles was held by his heel and dipped in the river Styx, which made him invincible everywhere except for his heel. This really has nothing to do with…

Starting location: Cape Perpetua Campground Ending location: Umpqua River State Park End of day cumulative mileage: 446.9 I woke up this morning to find that it had rained again last night. It was still drizzling a bit so I decided to sleep more. I ended up oversleeping and didn’t get out of camp until about noon.…

Starting location: Pelican Shores Inn, Lincoln City, OR Ending location: Cape Perpetua Campground End of day cumulative mileage: 395.0 There’s a couple of military acronyms that I really like. The first is SNAFU. It stands for Situation Normal: All F’d Up. That’s pretty much what the last few days have felt like. There’s been some sort…

Starting location: Somewhere on Meadowlake Road between Beaver and Portland Ending location: Pelican Shores Inn, Lincoln City, OR End of day cumulative mileage: 339.3 I had prepared myself for the possibility of some rough nights on this trip. I brought both my tent and my hammock in case I couldn’t make it to a motel or…

Starting location: Econolodge, Portland, OR Ending location: Somewhere on Meadowlake Road between Beaver and Portland End of day cumulative mileage: 269.2 (including STP miles) I woke up well rested enough to soberly think about the journey ahead. It’s about 800 miles to Davis. Most of that’s on the well traveled Pacific Coast Bicycle Route. I…

“That’s crazy!” That’s the response I get from most people when I tell them I’m planning to bike from Portland to Davis. I think that was pretty much the response of everyone except for my dad. My dad’s response was, “Hey, when are you getting married?” Which of course is his standard greeting whenever he…