You just gave me an idea to search for stick-on bi-focal windows. My favorite cycling glasses are Oakley Racing Jacket, as these are the best to keep the wind and dirt out of my eyes. They have plenty of vertical space and so adding a bi-focal to the bottom of the pane would would well. I only need that for when navigating with the 800, so I can swap out those lens when not needed.

BTW, my race GPS is a Garmin 500 and never use that for navigating (in no-map mode). No reading glasses needed either :)

Paper maps. I like to get a sense of the days whole ride laid out, not just the next 2 turns. Does gps give you contour elevation and hill direction on the paved road? I usually try to figure out where I'm going to camp after the first day's ride and wing it from there. Aren't people riding out of cell/ gps range sometimes?

Sometimes directions from local residents are far better than a map. I remember I was once in VT at a diner in Ludlow having breakfast and had my map out planning my ride over Killington on Rt100. The cook told me that there was a gravel road just before the climb called River Road and that it would completely bypass the mountain. He was right and the trade of gravel riding rather than climbing was great.

I have used Optx brand stick on lenses with some of my regular glass sunglasses but have had less luck when using them on wrap arounds. The curve of the wrap around type lens did not seem to work as well.

Racing Jacket lens are sized more like regular and not wrap around, so the Optx may work. Plus, reviews on Amazon seem to indicate that the lower mag (1.0-2.0) are thinner and adapt to curved lenses better. I would only need a 1.25-1.5 to focus on the GPS @ handlebar distance.

Thanks for the tip.

Actually on my ride, I also didn't encounter anything open in Valentine. My journal notes from 2001: "Hills went away and land opened up as I got close to Valentine. Population 214. From the looks of it, at least four buildings in town were abandoned cafes and three were abandoned gas stations. Nothing open currently or place to get water. Wonder if all four were open at the same time, or just serially tried different buildings." However, I somehow also remember reading other journals about people being able to fill water (other than my journal note above, I didn't try very hard).