Originally Posted by
alan s
I've got nothing against CGOAB, but some of the folks who post there are a bit full of themselves. I mean, do you really need to read about someone's detailed planning months in advance? And the catchy titles are just ridiculous. If the posters just stuck more to the facts, and tried less hard to be aspiring travel writers, I would probably use it as a resource more often. I really despise the self-promoting Facebook style of many of the writers.
I'm not sure I get it
You want "just the facts" but don't want someone's detailed planning. You don't want the
flavor of the trip but you want all the ingredients but don't want the planning. How does that work?
Frankly, I state up front in my posts over there that I won't give you all the planning. I won't give you all the details of my bike or my gear or my routing or etc because I find those to be the
least useful parts of bicycle touring. Everyone does touring a bit differently.
Personally, I'd rather read about the area from a travel perspective. I don't need to know that someone rode X bike with X tent and X sleeping bag and X panniers and ate X food. But if that same someone tells me about a cool little museum or obscure sight to see that only bicyclists know about or about a great little restaurant, it makes me want to see it for myself. That's the way that I write about my travels over there.