I have - someone pointed it out when I started planning this tour - but had forgotten about it. It is very good, and thanks for reminding me. We’ll start testing out our planned rides against its recommendations. We’ve already altered our planned ride on our next travel day because of it.

Hi Amber. Rachael is the GoPro half of the team so she’ll be in touch with you. While we wait though, which GoPro version do you have, and will you be taking along a tablet or other device you can download and store photos and videos on?

And have a great tour!

This isn't related to this particular entry, but I didn't know any other way of contacting you, so here goes...Jim Fitch, another cyclist who uses Cycleblaze recommended that I contact you to get recommendations for how you use your Gopro when touring. I'm going on a 6-week Pacific Coast tour in Sept/Oct and am trying to figure out how to manage storage and processing while I'm traveling. If you have some thoughts you'd like to share, my email is amberstarfire@att.net. Thanks :-)

You may have heard of cycle.travel for route planning. Saw an exchange on my social media that it wasn’t very good in France for one person but someone else in England said it was a game changer for them.

Tough question. I’ve tried ten now and I’m losing track, but this one might be my favorite so far. I don’t know that I’ll repeat any of them though because I like the idea of sampling as many as possible.

Still looking for one I like as well as Bell’s Two Hearted IPA though.

I'm curious--has your hard work and extensive research revealed a particularly delicious British beer yet? They all look good, but which one is your favorite, so far?

This was sort of a toss-off question, but I’m really glad I asked. Thanks for taking it seriously! I’m surprised to find out how much information there is about feather identification, something I’ve never really thought about unless I see something obvious like from a crow or flicker.

This could easily be a primary from a tawny owl, the most common owl in England and a year-round resident here.

I’ve heard that it was used to comb out wool there in the Olde Country. Considered invasive in the New World. But it does have its moments.

A chance it’s an owl, going only by the tip. For owl feathers, look for serration along the edges, and for tiny hairs covering the surface. Those features break up the wind into microturbulences which muffle noise. Good adaptation for their type of hunting. Hawk feathers, on the other hand, are made for speed, so are smooth on edge and top. These examples were one of the cool things I got to tell people in my previous life.

Could also just be a gull.

Too awesome. I wondered if you’d take a shot at it. Thick legged, alright - look at those quads! He could be a sprinter.

Wow! one of the first photos searching for England metallic green beetle matched perfectly! Thick-legged flower beetle.

https://www.whatsthatbug.com/2011/05/20/thick-legged-flower-beetle-3/

The pencil point analogy is spot on

Those seals are so cute!

Yes, I do that too, as well as switching travel mode to walking. Even that didn’t work in this case, as sometimes happens when there’s a real barricade - a washed out bridge or a stretch of private land for instance. I converted it to just draw a straight line through, which always works, and hoped for the best.

I sometimes switch base maps when that happens. OSM Cycle often lets me connect dots the default RWGPS map won't.