Tips for bikepacking from San Francisco to Los Angeles

Cool, these are great insights! Thanks so much for taking the time to answer so elaborately. Based on @TrekCentury 's answer above, I’ll definitely go south. I need to do some more research on the routes. I don’t necessarily need to end up in LA, I had just figured it might be sensible to ride south because of the weather, and SF-LA seemed a reasonable goal for a week of bikepacking. t’ll be my first time riding in the US, so I have no clue what would be a good idea. If you have tips for riding around Santa Cruz, I’d love to hear them!