Originally Posted by
hilltowner
Turn around. It then becomes a tailwind. Who doesn't like those?
There is that ... if you're not locked into a route or schedule, you can just go wherever the wind blows you.
We sort of do that when we tour anyway ... just go wherever we feel like going.
But I have often thought that I might like to take a month or so and do a "go where the wind blows me" tour. So ... if the wind is coming from the north, I'd cycle south until the wind changed. I'd probably want to select my start location depending on the prevailing winds in whatever country or continent I'm on.
So for example, I might start in Calgary which would give me some room to go west if there were an easterly wind, but knowing that the prevailing wind is a westerly wind, I would anticipate a greater possibility of going eastward across the country.