As I plan this winter tour, its sorta cool to learn from the stuff from other tours, especially in the planning stage. I am curious, from you all, what your routines are when it comes to planning.

In my very limited experience, I like to figure out, in general, where I want to tour, find a starting point, see what parks are available followed by a general area of stealth camping, map it all out with miles in mind, find out if there is any warmshowers hosts around, research the towns, final map out in ridewithgps, look at it with google earth, note the bicycle shops close by, restaurants that might be great and other places to visit and go from there.

The planning stage takes some time but it is a lot of fun. I know some do not plan at all which is respected.