Bike tour/Summer 2019

This page is for planning our ride back to Seattle.

Options

Confirmed(?)

TBD

Section 1 (Davis to Applegate)
Option 1) 6/22-27 (5.25 days)
Option 2) 6/23-27 (5 days); arrive at Ose's on 6/22 and spend a whole day on 6/23.

Section 3 (Bend/near Bend)
Option 6) TBD departure date; 3 days from Bend to Portland via Warm Spring Reservation and Bagby
Option 7) TBD departure date: 3 days from Sisters (outside of Bend) to Portland via Breitenbush and Bagby
Option 8) TBD departure date: 4 days from Bend to Portland via Belknap, Breitenbush, and Bagby

[Bike] home → San Jose Diridon [~17mi]
[Train] Amtrak SJC → Davis [To Be Decided]
- Trains leaving SJC at: 8:15AM, 10:10AM, 1:05PM (trip time: ~2.5 hours)
- [TODO] buy Amtrak ticket
Visit UC Davis
[Bike] Davis → Dunnigan (~28mi)
[Stay] Motel 6 Dunnigan
- [TODO] Reserve room

Meals:

Breakfast in Davis: Konditorei Austrian Pastry (Davis); Cafe Bernando
Dinner in Dunnigan: Taqueria La Michoacana (open 8am-6pm on weekends only); only other options are fast food and a 24h Denny's

Backup Options:

Meals:

Breakfast in Dunningan (Denny's?)
Lunch: (a) best bet will be El Cazador in Princeton (~40mi); there are a bunch of options in Colusa (~27mi); several supermarket options along the way
Dinner: Los Costeños if we stay on Solano; Amigos De Acupulco if we stay south near the Holidy Inn

Alternate options have us stop in Orland and come up parallel to I5. This is a very different route but might be a little shorter:

[Stay] Orland Inn or Orland Motel or The Parkway RV Resort & Campground (a bit out of the way; $35 for tent sites)
Lunch: A bunch of choices in Williams (42 miles to Orland); Mimi's Taco in Maxwell (33 miles to Orland; no restaurant after this until Willows) or a bunch of choices in Willows (16 miles to Orland)
Dinner in Orland: El Vaquero (11am-10pm; right next to Orland Inn); Taqueria Don Sammy (9am-9pm); La Corona Mexican Restaurant (7am-9pm)

[Bike] Corning to Manton/Shingletown. [~70 miles; 4442 ft; from Manton to KOA is steep; ~2100ft in 12 miles]
[Stay] Mt. Lassen / Shingletown KOA (reservations are required [TODO])

Meals:

Breakfast: McBrayer's Hometown Cafe (opens 5-7am); alternative if we want to get an early start, there are many options in Red Bluff (20mi)
Lunch: we can pick up something at the Olive Pit in Corning (opens at 7am) in Corning; several options in Red Bluff including Bud's Jolly Kone veggie burgers and several burrito options
Dinner: Pioneer Hillside Pizza is open until 9pm and 4.4mi from campground and there is an alternate path via Emigrant Trail that avoids the main road; alternative is camp/cooking at the KOA

Alternate housing:

[Bike] Shingletown to Algoma (82mi)
[Stop] Subway Lava Tubes (these seem to be right near the road; 27.5mi from KOA) [Maybe?]
[Stop] Burney Falls Waterfall [54.6mi]
[Stay] Algoma Campground

Algoma Campground has no reservations, a vault toilet, and no water (but the appears to be a river so we can make it).

Meals:

Breakfast: Cook at KOA
Lunch: Snacks at Burney Falls including stuff we get at the general store which has "basic grocery items"
Dinner: Bartle Lodge (3.3mi from Algoma; open 7am-8pm)

Bagby Campground is first come, first served, so we may want to get there early. 19 sites. There is another campground 5 miles from this (Kingfisher), which can be reserved.

General:

Shopping:

order freeze dried food for trip
- [DONE] dried vegetables from North Bay Trading (ordered 2019-06-02)
- [DONE] freeze dried tofu from eVitamins.com (ordered 2019-06-02)
[TODO] shopping trip to REI
- 2-3 lightweight summer wool socks for Mako
- short sleeve merino wool t-shirt
[DONE] order sleeping bag and ground cloth
[DONE] order new sleeping pads
[DONE] wool cycling jersey for Mika (ordered 2019-06-02)

Work on Mika's bike:

Work on Mako's bike: