Originally Posted by
valygrl
I see your point, sstorkel, and I typically am not in the mode of saying "yes" to all trip ideas - but this is 3 20-something guys riding one of the most popular and easy to manage bike routes, at the right time of year, with money for hotels, and one of them has done something similar before.
Compare my positive response here, to the 60-something guy who wants to ride from phoenix to vegas in the middle of summer with no experience.
The OP is proposing to ride from Seattle to San Diego in "a little over three weeks". He admits to doing one previous trip which took "about
three days of biking 8-12 hours/day". He also says that, "Two of us have never done anything like this before" and that they've been doing "
light training for the past week or two".
My copy of
Bicycling the Pacific Coast suggests that their version of the coast route from the Canadian border to the Mexican border is 1745 miles. If the OP and his newbie buddies want to accomplish this trip in 21 days, they'll need to average
83 miles/day and they won't have a
single rest day. Is that
really a realistic goal, in your mind? Keep in mind that BtPC suggests a 37-day itinerary for the same trip...
I think this is a trip that has a good chance of success and low down-side if things go poorly, since it's so easy to end a trip anywhere on the pacific coast.
I think there's no way that three newbies average 83+ miles/day for three weeks straight...