Originally Posted by paxtonm
Sorry, one more thing. There are spots where it's very difficult to find a place to hang a hammock. One of the nicest places to camp on the Big Sur coast has sites right atop a cliff at the edge of the Pacific. It's usually not a problem, but you may want to be ready to spend a very occasional night on the ground.
Just so many places to ride on the west coast you could spend years. Think about the desert in winter, some Sierra passes in summer, the coast route...
I hope you actually do this starting next August.
It's funny as in how I think about this. I wouldn't be looking at this bike tour as a vacation, but I would be looking at myself as a traveler. Arizona in the winter, california for a year, vancouver in the summer, denver in another summer, toronto in another summer. It's an awesome thought really to imagine being at those places. I know in my mind that my life will head in this direction, It's just a matter of when and how much cash I've saved up. I'm thinking of saving like $15,000 in the bank then taking off. I could live off that money for quite a time independantly. If you go to the docks to work in the east coast, a lot of them make over $15/hr, and a few friends of mine went up there (massachusetts) from August to October and brought home over 6 grand. They did work 60 - 70 hour weeks, but for them, to work 2 months and bring home that kind of cash is nice.
Chad