Originally Posted by
Doug64
Seriously, I think those innovations have taken a lot of the adventure out of bike touring.
On some level I disagree with this. I came to bicycle touring by way of backpacking, back in the 1970's. For backpacking I used Topo's, but when I bike toured it was too pricey to buy that level of detail on paper. So I had to rely on "road maps" which never showed the back-country and forest roads that I like to explore. Now with GPS tech I can carry all the detail I need to explore anywhere.