Originally Posted by gdtrfbuva

Thanks for all the great advice everyone. My latest thought on this is to do Santa Fran - Santa Barbara. That's something like 380 miles. If I spread that out over a week it's 54 miles a day. Pretty light if I'm not hauling anything, but for my first time fully loaded it sounds like the right distance. I'd follow the route suggested by Adventure Cycling. The only question appears to be the weather. Keep in mind, I'm from Portland, Oregon ... the land of umbrellas!

Whaddyathink??