Originally Posted by
saddlesores
a little confused about the timeline, but seems you're okay getting to the first hotel.
you'll take on the train: bike, on tour stuff, and before/after tour duds.
when you finish the tour, you leave the dropoff point by bike with your on-tour stuff inside
the bicycle panniers hanging on your rear rack.
your dressy duds are waiting for you at the hotel.
you may at this point send via ups one or both of your panniers home.
for non-riding days, i wear my gettin'-to-another-country-goin'-thru-airport-clothes.
lightweight cotton/nylon khaki shorts with elastic waist (no belt=no buckle=no tsa)
lightweight no-iron quick-dry polo-style shirt.
Post tour in Bellingham is my bigger question. I'll have no sag wagon. . . Guess, my time there will mostly be spent on the bike. Very little social stuff going on.. Mostly riding about Vancouver Island for a couple days.
When I send my camping gear back I can probably live mostly in bike gear and send almost everything else back except for what I will need for the return home on the train.
It is Portland , where I will be doing more social kinds of things prior to the tour.