What I see as your biggest problems are overplanning and undertesting. You've got a lot of interesting ideas of how to do a tour like this, but until you put it all together on the road day after day, you won't know what works for you and what won't. (Some of it sounds pretty infeasible to me, but different people can make different approaches work.) We didn't get to the moon by designing Apollo and the Saturn V and then going for the moon on the first launch. You need to get out and do some shorter tours and incrementally see if you can put all the pieces together: equipment, expenses, riding habits, weather, attitude, safety, training, nutrition, etc. I hate to be party-pooper, but my prediction is that if you just wing it without working up to a trip of this magnitude, you'll get a few days out and be so miserable you'll probably turn around and come home.
- Mark
Last edited by markjenn; 04-05-15 at 11:53 PM.