Originally Posted by atnyc

Well, I’m afraid you’re still missing my point. Read my first post (which I elaborated again just above)

If the villages are too small to have a grocery store, there’s probably not much worth stopping. And if a full day’s riding pass through only such villages, it wouldn’t be where I would want to tour.

(Just had a conversation with a riding buddy of mine who is about to retire. It took about 90 seconds for both of us to reach the conclusion for her usage: get a gravel bike!)

There’re many ways people tour. Yours isn’t the kind I will do. (I mean, I appreciate you raised the issue of loaded stability. But it really doesn’t apply in this case. “3 days of food”? I’ll rent a car for that stretch!)