For several years now, I have toyed with the idea of doing a tour where every day brought a guaranteed all-day tailwind. Easy to do--you just start in a windy place at a windy time of year (Dodge City, Kansas in April, say) and start riding downwind, in whatever direction that happens to be. Do the same thing the next day, and the next, and the next.

Of course, this would probably involve a certain amount of zigging and zagging. But so what? It's not like you have to double back on precisely the same route if the wind switches 180 degrees from one day to the next. You could just diagonal a bit so as to see different country. Given two weeks or so, it would be interesting to see where you ended up--Nebraska, Iowa, Texas, Missouri--or maybe still in the middle of Kansas. I find the uncertainty of the whole thing kind of appealing. Admittedly, the beginning of tornado season on the plains could be a concern, but that doesn't necessarily seem like a deal breaker to me.

I don't suppose it would be a good idea to hoist a sail, but it might help to plan a bag and pannier system that gave the wind some surface area to push against.

Is this a stupid idea? Has anyone here ever tried anything like it?