CycleMotor Test Trip!

Had Google pick me out a walking directions path for traveling from Pensacola,FL to San Francisco,CA. This will be a test bed trip to see if I am worthy of a Pan-America Highway trip to Patagonia next year. I figure if I can make it the 5000 miles round trip to California, I'll do decent on the 12,000 mile trek to the end of South America. I plan on modifying the google trek to suit my needs and also visit friends and fellow MBer's!!! Let me know if you are any where near this route! Hope to go in July for my good friend James King's birthday, he is the proud owner of the Black Horse London Pub, where I worked while finishing film school. But if all else fails with scheduling(jobs suck!), I at least want to go by the fall, Octoberish.
I plan on taking the US-85 route, to go into Mexico for a bit through Juarez.
I keep you guys posted, I will be Videotaping the whole way and uploading them to a Blog!
L8R...

Are you joking me??? Cause I've lived in Mexico. Yea Juarez is rough but I've been in worse. Sorry you had an F'd up experience, man. Hope you dropped that gun in a ditch somewhere...

No, I'll be going through Phoenix. There are three paths that it picked out, the one I am choosing is the third down, the US-84 trip. I'll come really close to your area.

It has me coming into Phoenix through Apache Junction then through Mesa on 60, I could shoot up 87 into Fountain Hills.

Hey Bill,
That's sweet, nice to see they have nice roads out there in Arizona. I was checking out the trip through Google street view(great way to check out road conditions), and there's plenty if space for little old me. Wish I could say the same about Florida, instead we have bike lanes that end abruptly. When ever there is a left hand turning lane they just take away the bike lane to make room for the extra space. So what happens is the middle of the road gets taken up by a left turner, so your stuck in a lane with cars trying to get past you and the turner so there is no room... Instant accident. I've seen 4 bicyclers get hit in the past year on one of the same turning lanes. Its terrible for pedestrians here in Pensacola.

Civilized,
I thought the same thing. Hope he didn't take his best piece/gat and then had to toss it. Sounds like someone's never left the Tennessee hills, whoops wait.. what am I saying I was born in TN, lol.

Travel Schedule with major and minor cities

Pensacola, FL

(210 miles) 1 day travel

Abita Springs, LA 1 day stay
(Fountainebleu State Park)($12)

(67 miles) 1 day travel

New Orleans, LA 1 day stay
(Bayou Segnette State Park)($26)

(71 miles) 1 day travel

Donaldsonville, LA
(_)($?)

(174 miles) 1 day travel

Lake Charles, LA
(Sam Houston jones State Park)($16)

(161 miles) 1 day travel

Conroe, TX
(Hunstville State Park)($15) or (Sam Houston National Forest)($20)

(158 miles) 1 day travel

Austin, TX 1 day stay
(Mc Kinney Falls State Park)($16)

(149 miles) 1 day travel

Junction, TX
(South Llano River State Park)($16)

(180 miles) 1 day travel

McCamey, TX
(Open Camping)

(100 miles) 1 day travel

Pecos, TX
(Blamorhea State Park)($14)

(90.6 miles) 1 day travel

Carlsbad Caverns Nat. Park, TX 1 day stay
(Guadalupe Mountains National Park)($8)

(153 miles) 1 day travel

El Paso, TX
(Franklin Mountains State Park)($8)

(148 miles) 1 day travel

Animas, NM
(Rusty's RV Ranch)($24)

(174 miles) 1 day travel

Tucson, AZ
(Gilbert Ray Campground/Tucson Mountain Park)($10)

(127 miles) 1 day travel

Phoenix, AZ
(McDowell Mountain Regional Park)($17)

(179 miles) 1 day travel

Yuma, AZ
(_)

(103 miles) 1 day travel

Salton City, CA
(_)

(58.4miles) 1 day travel

Julian, CA
(Cuyamaca Ranch State Park)

(58.2miles) 1 day travel

San Diego, CA 2 days stay
(Alex's Place)

(134 miles) 1 day travel

Los Angeles, CA 1 day stay
(_)

(101 miles) 1 day travel

Pine Mountain Club
(Mill Potrero Campground)

(127 miles) 1 day travel

Paso Robles, CA 1 day stay
(Paso Robles RV Ranch & Campground)($30)

(151 miles) 1 day travel

Santa Cruz, CA
(New Brighton Beach State Park)

(87.8 miles) 1 day travel

San Francisco, CA

Averaged Total Miles 2800+/- 24 days tvl 8 days sty = 32 Total

Cool, Thanks, Bill.
I'll send him a message, but I will be traveling up to Phoenix to visit Helmutt, so I'm sure I'll be close by to stop and visit. I'm hoping more people from the forum will chime in if they are close to my route.

The coolest thing has been using Goggle Maps 'Bike' option for finding directions. It takes you the back highways and also scenic bike routes. Another note, is on the option tab(upper part of map) there is a bike button, this will highlight all bike lane routes on the map in green, pretty cool. I was able to plan out camping by entering in my key cities and letting it map it out, then going to the search tab and entering camping and campground. You can then scroll the map around and locations will pop up. Got to give it to Google for inovation, that's why I own some stock, lol.

Don't have a definite date of departure yet but looks to be mid-August or at least by the end of it. Will keep all you guys in the loop. Website(with video posts) coming soon!!!

Fair,
That's awesome. As things draw near I'll lat you know, everything is speeding towards a mid to end of August leave, that puts me your way a week into september, but I'll be able to make a better judgement by the end of July. L8R.

Here's a full list of cities with mileage between, travel distances are approximate, considering Google directions leads you to town center of every city.


Pensacola, FL
to Abita Springs, LA
Florida
Start Pensacola
Alabama
+21.0 Seminole
+20.4 Loxley
+12.2 Spanish Fort
+14.1 Mobile
Mississippi
+30.0 Hurley
+04.7 Wade
+40.7 Saucier
+35.7 Bay St. Louis
+18.6 Pearlington
Louisiana
+12.5 Slidel
+11.5 Lacombe
+08.2 Mandeville
+09.0 Abita Springs
Abita Springs, LA
to New Orleans, LA
+09.0 Mandeville
+08.2 Lacombe
+11.5 Slidel
+38.8 New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
to Donaldsonville,LA
+07.9 Marrero
+08.7 Waggaman
+12.3 Luling
+46.4 Donaldsonville
Donaldsonville,LA
to Austin,TX
+88.5 Opelousas
+20.8 Eunice
+62.0 Lake Charles
+07.7 Moss Bluff
Texas
+67.7 Silsbee
+09.5 Kountze
+51.4 Cleveland
+23.2 Conroe
+15.7 Montgomery
+26.0 Navasota
+25.0 Brenham
+34.5 Giddings
+56.1 Austin
Austin,TX
to Tucson, AZ
+83.5 Fredericksburg
+23.8 Harper
+40.2 Junction
+60.0 Sonora
+37.5 Ozona
+50.4 Iraan
+28.4 McCamey
+35.2 Imperial
+28.8 Coyanosa
+31.0 Pecos
+85.9 Carlsbad Caverns State Park
+53.2 Salt Flat
+52.5 Desert Haven
+33.2 El Paso
New Mexico
+74.0 Columbus
+74.2 Animas
Arizona
+105 Tombstone
+16.9 St. David
+07.7 Benson
+35.8 Vail
+28.2 Tucson
Tucson, AZ
to Phoenix,AZ
+23.9 Catalina
+48.1 Florence
+17.5 Sun Tan Valley
+40.6 Scottsdale
+11.8 Phoenix
Phoenix,AZ
to Yuma, AZ
+36.3 Buckeye
+113 Welton
+34.0 Yuma
Yuma, AZ
to Salton City, CA
California
+64.2 Brawley
+08.3 Westmorland
+28.8 Squeaky Springs
+04.0 Salton City
Salton City, CA
to San Diego, CA
+30.8 Borrego Springs
+31.1 Julian
+21.5 Ramona
+12.8 Poway
+28.5 San Diego
San Diego, CA
to Los Angeles, CA
+23.1 Solano Beach
+12.7 Carlsbad
+03.6 Oceanside
+24.4 San Clemente
+12.1 Laguna Niguel
+08.8 Laguna Beach
+12.1 Costa Mesa
+06.7 Huntington Beach
+15.2 Long Beach
+25.4 Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
to Paso Robles, CA
+09.2 Glendale
+05.1 Burbank
+11.5 San Fernando
+10.8 Santa Clarita
+48.9 Chandler
+04.1 Frazier Park
+14.5 Pine Mountain Club
+42.0 Maricopa
+07.7 Taft
+70.7 Cholame
+06.8 Shandon
+18.2 Pas Robles
Paso Robles, CA
to Santa Cruz, CA
+11.2 San Miguel
+11.6 Bradley
+19.0 San Ardo
+10.6 San Lucas
+10.0 King City
+13.5 Greenfield
+13.3 Soledad
+10.3 Gonzales
+06.2 Chualar
+10.9 Salinas
+08.7 Castroville
+11.9 Watsonville
+10.4 Rio Del Mar
+10.9 Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
to San Francisco, CA
+06.9 Scott's Valley
+13.2 Lexington Hills
+07.5 Los Gatos
+04.6 Saratoga
+04.6 Cupertino
+03.3 Sunnyvale
+04.4 Mountain View
+06.2 Palo Alto
+07.4 Redwood City
+04.2 Belmont
+05.3 San Mateo
+03.3 Burlingame
+02.1 Milbrae
+03.4 San Bruno
+01.8 South San Francisco
+03.3 Brisbane
+11.5 San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Lots of miles to go before I sleep.....