Getting lost on your bike - not as easy now
I was just reading through Northbend’s Cino ride report thread. He posted a pic of the map handed out in former days. It made me think of long rides done before we had so much technology to remind us of where we are all the time. I still like getting a little bit lost from time to time but it’s harder to do now. Not too long ago I scanned in photos from my honeymoon in 1996. We did a bike tour of the Ring of Kerry in SW Ireland. I nice gentleman would pick our bags up each day and drive them to the next B+B and my new wife and I would set off on the bikes guided by a slip of paper with maybe not quite precise directions. We managed to keep the ocean on the left and get where we needed to be though. Any other examples of how we managed to get by without GPS BITD?
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