Best Bike Vacation

[pedalfaster]

Karen,

Congrats on the 20 years! What a great way to celebrate.

Are you looking for a fully supported tour, or are you guys more do-it-yourself types?

Road or mountain bike or both?

Will you fly out and need to rent bikes, or are you driving with the bikes?

Personal Favorite moutain-bike destinations include:

West Virginia (Elk River Touring Center, Snowshoe etc)
Ashville, NC(Pisgah, Tsali)
and the previously mentioned New Mexico (I really do think New Mexico is the great, under-discovered bicycling state: great scenery and probably the best FOOD in the whole darn country!).

On the road bike I've really enjoyed:

Shenandoah National Park
Big Bend National Park and the whole West Texas region.
San Diego area--Alpine, Julian (gotta give one vote to my home town!)

Favorite big-city for cycling:

Washington D.C.

I'm mostly a do-it-yourself type, but
two US tours I'd be interested in doing:

California Wine country

and a tour of Utah's National Parks like this one:

Trek Travel

Wow...now you have me daydreaming (it's cold and rainy here).

Have fun planning your trip!

p.s. you might also want to check out Hell Week

The one in the Texas Hill Country is the original, but the Vegas trip (in May!) might be right up your allley...