Step 4 - Route Planning
At this stage in the prep phase I've completed the majority of the farkles , acquisition of the gear , bought most of the emergency tools and camping equipment , have undergone some preliminary training and selected most of my riding gear so it's time to get to work on planning out a preliminary path. Given the amount of time-off that the ol' slave-mill allots (or rather doesn't...) we have to be quite conservative with the clock and choose a course that carefully considers creative routes to cater to our skill and stamina. My lofty ambitions put this first trip in the scale of something like Texas to Alaska but a quick map search bursts this bubble before it even began. A newbie like myself, on a new ride, in conditions that I'm not familiar with and carrying a cargo of untested equipment, for that kind of mileage would be recipe for disaster so, instead, we let logic take over and opted for something a little more attainable over the course of a long holiday we