dougP, I've done some great, small group, supported tours and this ranks near the top. Let the musing begin…. -JimD On Jul 4, 2013, at 8:14 PM, dougP <dougpn...@cox.net> wrote:
> Jim: > > Thanks for the photos. I've heard of this tour but this really makes it > interesting. A small group of us were doing our own trip through Napa / > Sonoma a few years back, & a couple of guys who'd toured in France offered > that this area was the equal of Provence, without the currency exchange rate > issue. And if you have to forage, Calistoga has pretty good pickings. > > It's not too early to start musing on 2014..... > > dougP > > On Thursday, July 4, 2013 4:11:58 PM UTC-7, JimD wrote: > A video slideshow and separate image files have been posted on Flickr: > > Video: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasterdogs/9211890216/ > > Individual photos: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasterdogs/sets/72157634488579030/ > > This is a supported tour. We camped, our gear was transported by our great > roadies. > Meals were provided by caterers in the various places we camped. > Calistoga was the exception, we had to forage there. That was a good thing. > As the ride progressed we became more road hardened we developed ways to > supplement our caloric requirements > and ate some great food at places along the way. Discovered that chocolate > milk shakes are > a perfect 'recovery' drink. Drank some wine too. > Oh, we did a fair amount of climbing. Riding through the wind farm was > interesting, > in places I found myself needing to peddle to move down hill. Through much of > the tour we > were on lightly traveled secondary roads. In some case the roads had been > lightly maintained. > I was happy to be on Jack Browns.The tour crosses California from the Sierras > to the Golden Gate and is fabulously beautiful. > > Details for this annual tour are at: > http://www.sierratothesea.org/tour_overview.php > The Almaden Cycling Touring Club has been conducting this tour for many years > and > run it flawlessly. > > Additionally folks are posting photos here: > https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sierra-to-the-Sea-Bicycle-Tour/133995396625061?v=wall > > > This is a great ride and worth anyone's consideration. It was a ton of fun. > > -JimD > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
