Fantastic scenery awaited us on our ride today, but best of all, cycling Bodega Dunes to Samuel P. Taylor State Park brought us to over 1,000 miles on this bike tour!
Cycling Bodega Dunes to Samuel P. Taylor is the 23rd of 24 daily diaries of our cycle trip from Seattle to San Francisco.
If you’d like to read from the beginning, check out, getting to Seattle.Each post in this cycle series will contain our daily journal entries that we kept via Track My Tour,photos captured throughout the day, and the exact route, duration, and elevation gains for the given ride.
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Let’s dive into Biking the Pacific Coast Highway, Day 22, Bodega Dunes to Samuel P. Taylor.
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Cycling Bodega Dunes to Samuel P. Taylor
Today we hit our 1,000-mile mark for this cycle trip. We had obviously cycled much more than 1,000 miles when preparing for this journey, however, this was a big milestone for us!
Leaving Bodega Dunes, we both were a bit slower on the bikes than normal, not because of fatigue, but because we knew this would be our last full day of riding before crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, marking the end of our journey.
In Tomales, we stopped to grab some food at a bakery only to end up talking with another cyclist who was preparing for a triathlon. He told us all the other cyclists there were preparing for the race too, but he was on a different training program than most of them, and let us in on the best secret…
Eating food at bakeries and such in the middle of a ride is actually great for cycling — hello free pass to eating all the baked goods! 😉
Leaving Tomales, was again just bittersweet. Today we’d be camping for the last time on this cycle trip, and honestly, it was bringing tears to our eyes!
Biking Bodega Dunes to Samuel P. Taylor Day 22 Quick Facts
- Miles // 42.10 miles
- Saddle Time // 4 hrs 10 min
- Elevation // 2,482 feet
- Accommodation // hiker-biker at Samuel P. Taylor State Park
- Water // fill at camp and places along the way
- Food // stop at Tomales Bakery in Tomales, and fill up for dinner at Point Reyes
Pacific Coast Bike Tour Blog Day 22
Friday 28 Aug 2015 20:08
Day 22: We started the day off, as usual, around 9:30 am. It was a REALLY GREAT DAY because we surpassed the 1,000 miles mark!
The day offered up some really great scenery. We stopped in Tomales at Tomales Bakery for a quick coffee and snack just after the rolling hills and hitting our thousand miles achievement.
We wanted something to really celebrate it and their baked goods really helped! While we were there, we saw a lot of other cyclists, however, they were not touring by bike, but rather training for an Ironman. It was pretty cool to see the differences in our bikes compared to theirs.
We quickly hopped back on the bikes and continued south. For this part of the ride, we just really took it slow to take it all in knowing that tomorrow would be our last day of cycling from Seattle to San Francisco.
With our last night on the road, we knew we wanted to have some wine and good food, so when we noticed that the last placed to pick up provisions was 8 miles away in Point Reyes, we got a bit down. But knowing it was our last night we bucked up and loaded our bikes down with wine, food, and snacks!
The last 8 miles were brutal and extremely pretty. Entering Samuel P. Taylor State Park was a great campground to end our last night. We ended up eating great food, drinking wine, and playing games late into the night as tomorrow would only be a 35-mile day.
Mileage for the day was 42.1 and elevation was 2,482 feet. Our total distance for the tour is 1,028.16 miles.
Cycler’s Tips for Cycling Bodega Dunes to Samuel P. Taylor | PCH Day 22
- If you’ve followed the same route we took down the PCH, today you’ll be hitting your 1,000 miles of riding down the west coast! Be sure to celebrate that accomplishment!
- The last place for provisions is about 8 miles out of camp tonight.. meaning you have to bike your food and drinks up and down that last peak before uphill again.. keep it in mind when buying food for your last night on the PCH.
- Tomales Bakery is a fantastic stop! We stopped because there were other bikes outside and it ended up being a real treat! All the other cyclists said they always go there during a ride!
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