Okay, I’ll admit it, I’ve been very lax about posting in the last several days^H^H^H^Hweeks. I’ve been really busy with a number of things, especially work projects needing to be completed before the end of the year. Thankfully I’m mostly caught up.

So what’s this about Oregon? Yep, my friend Erich, with whom I journeyed across Iowa, and I are planning a new trip. This time it looks like we are going to ride the Oregon coast from Astoria in the NW corner to the California border. It certainly looks beautiful.

You can find a PDF route map on the Oregon government site here or embedded below.

I’m not quite sure when we’ll go, but it’s definitely on for next year during one of the one of the off-season months. We are both experienced riders but we’d prefer to minimize our exposure to badly driven rental RVS.

The route is only about 370 miles compared to the almost 500 of RAGBRAI, but the amount of climing is pretty much equivalent, about 20,000 ft. We discussed how much time we wanted to take and agreed that while we could ride it in seven days, we’d rather take eight and have the option of a either day off or two light days. Logistics to be worked out.

That’s the plan.

Erich will be coming out to visit his sister this winter and we plan on an overnight, though not really an SO24, we’ll be hitting a hotel and living in style…assuming of course we can get a reservation. That has yet to be seen.