California Tour - New Tour Musings

Celia and I just returned from guiding our first California Explorer tour. We had a couple of Bike Friday folks from the East Coast join us. One individual was from Ithaca, NY and the other person was from Boston. As California has done with us over and over the scenery and riding is stunning. As Dorothy kinda said "you're not in the East anymore". Here are a feew photos from the tour. For 2009 we intend to offer an 8 day tour and a 5 day tour. The first five days of both tours will explore the California Coast and Santa Cruz Mountains south of San Francisco while the last 3 days of the 8 day tour will be around Pt. Reyes Station. With the 8 day tour we also ride across the Golden Gate Bridge and take a ferry across San Francisco Bay.

Next Season Tours
We will be moving our focus to camping tours in 2009. Some of our lodge based tours will be converted to camping though we will have one or two lodge based tours. Camping tours are a lot more fun for us. Sitting around a picnic table in the evening with a group of friends is a highlight of any tour for us. We also can offer meals far superior to most restaurants at a far lower cost. We take tremendous pride in our tours and we can do a much better job controlling quality when we do the preparation.

We will be adding a couple of new tours for next season. Details on these big changes will follow within a couple of weeks. Sign up for our email newsletter if you want to be notified when the new tour calendar is on the website. Go HERE to sign up. Our 2009 tour calendar will be on our website by the end of the month.

Cheers, Ben

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