Yeah man, I'm huffing and puffing at the top of bathurst and st. clair and you're climbing the rockies with one leg. If you didn't feel a sense of accomplishment from that I'd have to jump off a bridge!

As far as tents for the trip go, I'm not too hot on the idea of a hammock or bivy sack as I'd like some space to be able to spread out my stuff or sit out the rain for a day comfortably. Being able to sit up straight is a must-have for shelter in my books. Still we have some time to think it over. We are thinking of getting the Big Agnes Seedhouse 3-SL which is the lightest 3 person tent MEC makes. My only concern is sharing a tent with a guy for 2-3 months... ugh. I have read some reviews of that Bikamper tent and the concensus is its a really bad design. Not any lighter than a regular tent, harder to set up, hard to get in and out of, makes you need to take your front wheel off every time you pitch the tent, makes the tent get covered in bike grease, more susceptible to tearing, more expensive. Its pretty much a bad tent all round. It doesn't even cover the bike properly

I don't think we will be getting much in the way of MREs. I am hoping we will be able to stop at a bunch of cheap truck stops for all day breakfasts and calorie laden greasefests whenever we pass them during the day, and then have dinner of random canned stuff and pasta and fresh veggies or whatever else we can pick up at grocery stores or on the side of the road. Lunch will be the regular fodder and breakfast porridge, fruit and coffee. I think rather than MREs I'd just carry a few spare clif bars or something. 2 of those can pretty much replace a meal in a pinch, plus I can eat them on the road.