Cycling and Dining on the Central California Coast

This week's Bike Overnight comes from Rachel Duchak, who runs the blog, CentralCoastFoodie.com.

Rachel's story, titled "A Central Coast Foodie Bike Overnight," is about cycling and eating up the great scenery and the good food along the central coast of California in the Big Sur-San Luis Obispo area. It begins like this:

?You can?t camp here,? they said, looking at our bike-camping bivouac in the middle of the military base. The two police officers from Fort Hunter Liggett -- 50 miles north of Paso Robles in the rural foothills of the Santa Lucia Range -- were ruining my thoughts of a restful sleep tucked in the tent with my sweetie.
I actually should thank them for giving us the chance to check out The Hacienda, William Randolph Hearst?s old hunting lodge at Fort Hunter Liggett -- and possibly preventing us from ending up stuck in some tank's treads as the Army played war games around us in the dark. With the closest campsite a dozen miles down the unlit road, we headed back to the well-lit base to see if we could wrangle a room at The Hacienda. Such was the first night of our tour over the Santa Lucia Range and through Big Sur, via Nacimiento-Fergusson Road and Highway 1.
... From the top of the climb, dense trees clouded the view of the ocean. At its summit, Nacimiento-Fergusson Road bisects a dirt road; the way north heads to Cone Peak (6 miles one way); going south, it heads along Plaskett Ridge and to some dispersed campsites. No water or facilities in either direction, but plenty of views.

You can read Rachel's entire Bike Overnight tale at BikeOvernights.org. While there, also check out the archives of bike overnights and Photos of the Week. Our recent weekly photo selection, published April 13 and featured below, comes courtesy of Matt Alford, from his post, Bikepacking to 'Bag' Mt. Townsend.


BikeOvernights.org Photo of the Week, 04.13.12.

Top two photos by Rachel Duchak.

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BIKE OVERNIGHTS is posted every Monday by Michael McCoy, Adventure Cycling?s media specialist, and highlights content from BikeOvernights.org. Mac also compiles the organization's twice-monthly e-newsletter Bike Bits, which goes free-of-charge to more than 44,000 readers worldwide.

Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2012/04/cycling-and-dining-on-central.html

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