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My Best-Laid Plans

For the third time, now, I've planned a tour that isn't going to happen. My tour planning process is quite... involved. I use Waymarked Trails to select appropriate (safe) routes.  Then, I plot out a detailed spreadsheet that includes the number of kilometers to ride to the next "point of interest", the elevation gain and loss, and what, exactly, is of interest at that point - usually a campground, but also things to do/see.  I also put in what date (approximately) we should reach that place to know we're somewhat on schedule. Best-Laid Plan for 2023 The first time I planned a tour that didn't happen, it didn't happen because of the pandemic, and the tour was supposed to happen in June of 2020.   The second time I planned a tour that didn't happen, it didn't happen because I couldn't reconcile the cycle tour plan with the plan to visit my long-lost cousins, and the long-lost cousins won.   At long last we're going to do a cycle tour this

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