ryoanji

I am looking to make a short solo trip / tour in the vicinity of San Francisco sometime in the next month or so. I have a certificate to stay one night in Marriott-network hotel, and I would like to incorporate that in my short tour. I am pretty good shape and used to riding 20-30 miles once a week (weekends), otherwise it is just commuting to school or taking a trailer to shop in Costco. I can probably do 5-7 hours of riding on the first day and 5 hours the second one.

I have ridden a bit around, mostly using the routes from https://inl.org but never for more then a day. Can you help me to suggest some ideas where can I go? I am looking for great vistas, beautiful natural scenery. Go to Point Reyes and then around Napa? Or southward on Highway 1, then take a train back? What would be a good resource (online, books) to check?


Thanks so much, and I hope everybody enjoys a great Thanksgiving!

P.S. I don't have a car

hueyhoolihan

take a look at those pics on the tomales/petaluma/tomales thread just put up recently. that's a good start.

there should be a marriot in Santa Rosa.

ryoanji

Thanks! That seems to be ~20 miles distance ride, might be interesting to incorporate as a segment into larger thing.

anotherbrian

Is your Marriott cert good for any category hotel? A lot of the common certs max out at cat 4, and that isn't even good enough to stay at the Courtyard in Novato (a cat 5), let alone the nicer hotels in Napa Valley proper (up to cat 8, though their nightly rate might not be any higher than the CY in Novato).

anotherbrian

...and the Santa Rosa Courtyard is a cat 6, which is absurd when it comes to certificate/points redemption value (I'm a freq traveller/Marriott stayer).

ryoanji

Yes, indeed! It is a reward visa cert, which is only good for 1-4 cat nights. Wow I did not realize the paucity of 1-4 cat hotels around SF. Thanks for pointing it out, I guess I have to rethink the whole adventure