Editing Bike tour/March 2016 (section)

== Dates and Times ==

Mako finishes a conference in the afternoon/evening of March 2nd. The trip will be for March 3-7 (with a return on the 6th possible, but difficult). 

[[Mika]] is interested in spending a day in Monterey. She leaves on the morning of March 2nd with Seth and Matt (until Half Moon Bay). She will then meet with Peter and Mako at the campground in Monterey in the afternoon on March 4th. We finish the tour together.

The [http://www.amtrak.com/coast-starlight-train Amtrak Coast Starlight] is scheduled to leave SLO at 3:35pm which would get folks into Oakland at 9:24pm that evening and into Seattle at 8:12pm the following day. We'd want to be there early to put bikes into bike boxes, etc. This means if we want to take the train on the same day, it would be 68 miles over ~8 hours of daylight which might be tight.

'''Mako and Mika have tickets from San Luis Obispo to Seattle on the Coast Starlight leaving SLO at on 3/7 and will be doing the five day version of the trip.''' It should be possible to make the train back to Oakland on March 6th but it will involve cycling at or before sunrise on March 6th, making very few stops, and may be tight. Of course, this alternative plan will involve skipping the evening and morning at the hot spring resort.

'''General notes:''' Sunrise in SLO on March 1st will be at 6:31am. Sunset is ~6:58pm. We will try to leave the campground by 8:30AM every day.