{"id":710,"date":"2014-09-14T22:16:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T03:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/?p=710"},"modified":"2014-09-14T22:16:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T03:16:38","slug":"preparing-bicycle-travel-pacific-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/preparing-bicycle-travel-pacific-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Bicycle Travel on the Pacific Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_713\" style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image-e1410747873226.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-713\" class=\"size-full wp-image-713\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image-e1410747873226.jpg\" alt=\"Route guide book\" width=\"479\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image-e1410747873226.jpg 479w, http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image-e1410747873226-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Route guide book<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I am in the Seattle area preparing to ride the Pacific coast from near the Canadian border to Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Traveling by Amtrak from Chicago to Seattle worked well with the exception of a long delay caused by a freight train waiting for a crew change. The train ride followed parts of the route I used to ride coast to coast in 2012. I&#8217;m staying with Rod, who I met in Maine on that ride. <div id=\"attachment_714\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image1-e1410748085256.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-714\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image1-e1410748085256-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pacific coast rote \" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-714\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image1-e1410748085256-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image1-e1410748085256.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pacific coast rote<br \/><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>The back cover of the guide book shows the route. It follows highways 101 and 1 most of the time. Each day is laid out from campground to campground. Average daily mileage is just over 53 miles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the Seattle area preparing to ride the Pacific coast from near the Canadian border to Mexico. Traveling by Amtrak from Chicago to Seattle worked well with the exception of a long delay caused by a freight train waiting for a crew change. The train ride followed parts of the route I used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[6,21],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycle-routes","category-cycling-in-48-states","tag-bicycle-touring","tag-pacific-coast-bicycle-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}