Originally Posted by Tourist in MSN

Keep your daily itinerary as flexible as you can. For example, my month long solo Iceland tour, there were two days that I quit early due to strong head winds. But there were two days that I had good tailwinds that I hated to waste, thus pushed on after I had reached my planned destination on those two days.

For example, one of the days that I quit early, I was unable to climb a hill and it was not that steep. But the headwind with gusty sidewinds, maybe I could have climbed that hill if there was a wide shoulder? But when you are pedaling up a hill at about 4 mph into a headwind and a strong sidewind gust tries to put you in the ditch, and there was no shoulder on a road with moderately busy traffic, there were many times on that hill when I came to a halt with both feet on the ground. I only went 10.6 miles that day before I turned around. The next day, hardly noticed the hill.

I assume you will be sleeping most nights in the RV. On my longer tours, I never planned a non-riding day very far in advance, if there was a day in the forecast that would have terrible riding weather, I tried to find a nice place to stop the night before that day in case I wanted to stay put for a day to sit out bad weather.

You have done enough long distance riding, I am sure you have the hardware figured out. But I am curious, how many bikes are you taking? If I was doing a trip like that where I am in an RV every night, I would have a low geared light weight bike for hills. And another bike that I like on flatter ground. One bike would have fenders for rain. One bike would have tires for rougher pavement. Or maybe one bike but with an option for clip on fenders and two wheel sets?