I don't have too much imagination,
but I would enjoy riding from Sacramento,
California up Highway 50 to Placerville
and South on Highway 49 through Plymouth,
Amador, Sutter Creek (First Calif. gold discovery 1849)
to Jackson, Angels Camp (once home to Mark Twain)
and down to Sonora, a completely restored Gold Rush
town. The elevation gain and loss on such a trip would
probably be pretty fierce. While it is described as the
Foothills of the Sierra's, it is nothing but huge rolling hills
for about 150 miles or more as I recall. Beautiful tho.

How I'd get home, I don't know. I probably wouldn't
wanna come home. I love the Gold Country in Northern
California, although I haven't been there in 25 years
and overdevelopment 'could' have trashed it.
The general area is seen here: http://tinyurl.com/hgcve

I would imagine that parts of New York
State would be nice too.