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Was just browsing through the Travel & Tips and found this... possibly too late (have you gone already??) but just in case it helps, I cycled from Seattle to Crescent City (a small place, just inside north California) in 2004 - so only a small part of the whole route, about 600miles over a week.
This book was very useful for planning, and also en-route:
Bicycling the Pacific Coast: A Complete Route Guide, Canada to Mexico: Amazon.co.uk: Vicky Spring, Tom KirKendall: Books
I teamed it up with some maps I bought in Seattle before setting off. I stayed in motels and had no problems finding places for about US$50 a night. But on the way I saw lots of nice, quiet state campgrounds - free to stay in, for just a patch of ground and a toilet - I've thought about doing it again, maybe going a bit further, but using the campgrounds instead and travelling less far each day for a more relaxed trip, with perhaps the odd motel to dry out / have a shower.
The roads could be busy at times, especially with logging trucks in Oregon, but mostly they had wide shoulders to get away from traffic... otherwise it was quite fast and gently rolling, so good for long distance days.
I finished the trip by wrapping my bike in a big tarp from a hardware store and taking it on a Greyhound bus down to San Francisco - so a good escape route if anything goes wrong.