Adventurelaus

Day 1: San Diego - Oceanside - San Diego   Distance: 91.7 miles   Total Ascent: 13,412 Bike route 757650 on Bikemap  I got my cycling adventure in but I guess I had to many expectation.  First off all I couldn't get a train ride up to Oceanside and did the route in the north direction.  The scenery was urban all the, and the route was mostly on the busy pacific coast highway, and the roads are rough as hell.  I guess Iowa has really spoiled me with very smooth rural highways with near to no traffic and plenty of rural scenery and fresh air. The plan was to take the 7am Amtrak to Oceanside since the Coaster train doesn't run on Sundays.  But that was nixed by a bomb thread that Amtrak received which resulted in the train to be canceled.  The next train wouldn't have gotten me to Oceanside until 10am.and I really didn't want to start riding that late.  The other option was to ride up to Oceanside and take the train back....

San Diego For work I'll be going to San Diego and I added a couple of personal days to it.  My thought is to sight see, visit aircraft carrier and possibly rent a bike and do a bike ride.  An option is to ride around the San Diego bay which is about 25 miles.  It looks like the east side goes through a lot of industrial areas though.  With Torrey Pines State Park and other interesting places being up north I though of doing the Pacific coastal tour from Oceanside back to San Diego.  It's about 45 miles one way and I could take the Coaster train (weekdays only) or Amtrak up to Oceanside with the bike.  Of course everything is contingent on what kind of bike I can rent. Accross Iowa Having completed the bike ride from Omaha to Ames the next natural step is to extend the ride across Iowa.  I have the following route in mind with overnight stops around Marshalltown (or a bit further west) and northern Iowa City. Family Tours Another thing I woul...