To me, one of the most important things for a touring bike to have is really good touring gear ratios. Don't come at me that it's all about building muscle so that any bike will be fine. That isn't what I'm looking for.

I want a bike - new or old - that is just made to get up hills. I'm not in a race, I just don't want to run out of gears. And I know there are sites and formulas out there but to a novice bike enthusiast, that stuff is WAY over my head. It doesn't help that I had a fluke stroke 5 years ago caused by a change in medication that wiped out my ability to do math. That ability has come back, but it'll never be as good as it once was (I also lost my ability to write initially too so I probably have more typos than you would expect).

If there is a list of it somewhere - that info would be great too.