Originally Posted by
meshcarver
Aye- honestly I'm pretty much the same man..!
I'm just chomping at the bit to get started with this I suppose so am pouring over every facet of it now..!
Again- it's certainly stuff that will change once I'm on the ground and am asking people as you say. That book's extremely useful too- got some great side trips included with it which is cool.
I've always felt a long bicycle tour has three phases. There is the planning and anticipation phase; the tour itself; and the aftermath. I can't look at a globe without putting my finger on a country and dredge up memories of this-or-that tour. Sometimes i'll be daydreaming and a "place" will come into my memory, and I'll ask myself... "darn where and when is that."
I'm hoping to do the Sierra-Cascade route starting on this April 1st for the fifth time, and I'm already dreaming about it.