It was actually closer to 1.5 hours on the phonecwith Garmin. I will say that the tech guy was great! Desktop and my phone wouldn't play with Garmin Express. He determined that the version was a few times out of date. The rep asked if I had another phone and that seemed to allow the updates. It is now connected to our desktop and updating the North America maps. With our speed it will be another hour at least.
Fortunately we don't leave for our tour for 7 weeks!

What did they tell you about switching from North America to Europe for the internal maps?

After determining that updates were needed I went through the process of first updating the North America and Middle America maps then I deleted them. I then load the Europe maps,there are 3 separate one. And it says they are there! Just wondering how I can actually verify that they are really there.

Can't you plan and make a course with your Garmin Explore 2? Make courses for the areas you plan to ride.

Or just import some courses you made on Garmin Connect, Strava, RWGPS or such and then load and review them.

We use Cycle Travel to plan our route. But we needed maps of Europe for our next tour.

Open the map and zoom in. Find a section of Europe in each zone and zoom into it to street level.

You know I thought about that but I thought "That’s too easy!!" Thanks

I've got maps!
one more item off the to do list for our upcoming tour.

Where will you be traveling??

Sweden, Norway, Denmark,Germany &Czech

Any newer Garmin (from the 800) deal with multiple maps transparently. They all just need to be enabled. And they shouldn't overlap. There can be an issue with not enough storage space. If there isn't enough room, one has to delete maps. This is a nuisance since later restoring them takes time. The better option is to download custom maps for the places you are travelling to. Since these can be much, much smaller than maps with continent-coverage, you (probably) won't need to delete anything. (It's a good idea to delete these maps when you are done.)

This is sort of "not great" in practice. Generally, it's better/easier to do the planning elsewhere. That also lets you download the routes to your phone, which is going to be better/faster for looking at overviews.

This is the better choice.

This is the way.