Like fietsbob, I too suppose you are calling out to tech heads with this post. I am (sort of) one of them, EXCEPT when it comes to bicycling -- especially bicycle touring.

I don't want to take the wind out of your sail, but I'd like to suggest that you try touring with the roughest idea possible of where you are going. That means, you jot down some basic directions before you leave home, you grab a paper map, then you make sure to leave early enough so that when you get lost, you can still arrive safely somewhere before darkness falls.

It's what lifelong memories are made of.