Our bicycle route from Portland to San Diego

Here it is: the official route we are biking from Portland to San Diego. I'm sure we'll get off track many times as that's part of the fun. And we'll have many side trips that we'll take to get off the Highway 1 or 101, but I don't think we'll know those until we see them.

We start in Portland and will cycle a total of 1393.7 miles--without accounting for any wrong turns. I spoke with a bike mechanic the other day who did this exact ride, and he said it took him 18 days of pedaling with a few days off the saddle. The total trip took him 22 days and he averaged 65 miles a day on the days he cycled. That's what I was planning for until I put together these series of maps. With the route tracked at 1394 miles, I will have to average 77 miles a day to make it in 18 days of biking.

That's hard. Very hard.