I’m completely in the throes of prepping for a big ride.  It has kind of sucked the air out of the room, due to complexity and the enormity of the ride. The official* ride length is 3500 miles all said and done, but it absolutely fails to account for five days in New Mexico which might add on another 1-2000 in hops out to places like Chaco Canyon and such.

I’m a prepper in that I make lists and make sure I have information in multiple formats so that I am not completely hosed when things go sideways.  I’ve been making a list of security products for the bike, repair and maintenance products, general ride improvement, documentation and access materials, and so on and so on.  I’m also building a small field notes notebook with turn by turn instructions to make sure that I can get to my locations without having to pull up GPS or an app on my phone.

I think of this as the big inhale, similar to when the water falls away before a big wave comes to shore.  It’s not visually appealing, being mostly stacks of stuff around the house and me checking and double checking safety, redundancy, and overall need for stuff.

Odyssey 2019 is going to be an epic ride, I hope I do it justice in sharing it with people.