PDF to SFO or Bust

     Since Brandon wrote an awesome Day 0 post about recent events and planning I thought I would bring us back to the beginning. This whole crazy idea began in 2012 when I was working at the Safeway bakery in Lincoln City, OR. I looked up from behind the counter and saw a gentleman pushing a bike bee-lining for the shelves loaded with carbs. The outgoing, talkative person in me had to know where his bike journey was taking him. He informed me that he flew into Portland from Chicago and was cycling all the way to San Francisco. I never got that man’s name...but he planted a seed in my brain.      Fast forward 7 years and sharing this crazy idea with Brandon...who is one of the only other crazy people I know willing to do this ride...and a plan was formed! I will admit he has been the backbone of the trip planning and handling the logistics. It's been months of planning, coronavirus happening, and trying to nail down the dates so I could attempt to get vacat...

Let's be honest, I bike for the beer stops      In anticipation of our great adventure down the Pacific coast from Astoria to San Francisco there was a lot of work to be done to make sure we had what we needed. With the COVID pandemic still raging in the US, there were also concerns that the trip wouldn't happen. After closely following news in both Oregon and California, and checking in on the State Park websites regularly, we determined to go for it, and that's when the planning work began.      Most of the State Parks along the route had revised rules and limited capacity due to COVID restrictions, because of this we had to plan out every single night of our trip. Generally riders can rely on hiker/biker campsites available at all State Parks that don't require reservations. Luckily, in Oregon, the State Parks were limiting reservations to 30 days out, meaning I could book any park I wanted as long as I did it early enough in the day, 30 days before arri...