I was thinking that this ride would be a good one, albeit long. But we're here to RIDE, not necessarily sightsee on this one; we would, however, stop at some vista points for photo ops.
Lunch would be in Borrego Springs in the Anza-Borrego State Park. Projected temperature upon arriving would be 71+ degrees.
Temperatures on the route:
Corona 62+
Escondido 63+
Ramona 59+
Ranchita 56+
Warner Springs 58+
Pala 62+
Corona on the way back 67+
(NOTE: temperatures were projected for April 11th on April 8th, and will probably be warmer getting closer to the 25th)
The route, mileage and travel times (times have been rounded off to the nearest 1/2 hour):
Brea/Fullerton to
Corona (28 mi, 30 minutes) to
Escondido (67 mi, 1 hour) to
Ramona (18 mi, 30 minutes) to
Santa Ysabel (16 mi, 30 minutes) to
Ranchita (22 mi, 30 minutes) to
Borrego Springs (14 mi, 30 minutes)
Leaving at appx. 8:30 AM, we would arrive appx 12 noon-12:30 PM to Borrego Springs (including gas stops, not including photo ops), have lunch for 45 min-1 hour, back on the road via
Borrego Springs to
Aguanga (47 mi, 1 hour) to
Norco (61 mi, 1 hour) to
Chino (17 mi, 20 minutes) to
Brea (19 mi, 20 minutes)
Home around 5 PM, including gas stops, not including photo ops.
Total mileage 305 miles, 6 hours per mapquest, not including lunch or gas stops.
GAS STOPS-this would be a tad tricky, because of the small towns we'd be going through, and the availability of acceptable gas stations, BUT if it works out, we would gas up in:
**Escondido after 89 miles (or Ramona after 107 miles) from Brea;
**Borrego Springs after 72 miles from Escondido, because it's 66 miles on top of those 72 to get to Temecula and our tanks would only do about 120 safely, also given the fact that we'd be going over mountain-ish roads, which would use up gas a bit more;
**Norco after 108 miles (from Borrego Springs);
**Brea just to always top off even though it'd be only around 36 miles.
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