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Merced is at least 2 hours away from the SF Bay Area or Sacramento. Bakersfield is 2-3 hours away from LA. Not many people bike 100 miles, and a bus would be
by frumper 3y ago
Merced is at least 2 hours away from the SF Bay Area or Sacramento. Bakersfield is 2-3 hours away from LA. Not many people bike 100 miles, and a bus would be even slower travel times. These are not useful endpoints. There isn't anything better between them. California is 50% larger than Italy with 2/3 the population. It's just not a dense place.
- ben_w 3y agoAlso, central valley is really really hot, at least by European standards. I've been in both SF and Italy during the winter, and I can imagine cycling Italy[0], but not CA, and not even if I could be sure the drivers and roads were safe (and in CA neither seemed that good, though I have no experience of Italian drivers as that trip was on public transport, which was fine). And sometimes CA is also a bit on-fire. I was diverted by this, and even in a car that meant an extra night camping[1] though I can't remember at this point if that was because there weren't enough towns with motels, or we just couldn't find them due to no phone signal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carr_Fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carr_Fire [0] the flat bits at least, I'm not fit enough/trained for the hills; but of course, that also describes most of CA that isn't central valley… [1] camping, in a forest that's on fire, and hoping that I was far enough away from the fire. I was, but I still have no sense of scale for the place.