Neil aka Lord Voldemort "He who must not be named" is not a bloke who I would like to have a cup of coffee with but you have to give him credit for maintaining the site with coming up for 17,000 journals, a great resource for planning a big ride.

I agree, it is a remarkable website with many remarkable journals. An amazing achievement for one person to have built and maintained from scratch. 

The only thing I worry about is the longevity of the website. At some point we will all die; Neil Gunton, the founder, included. I read in one of his posts that all the website hosting material is in his house. I wish him good health and happiness for as long as possible, but he doesn't strike me as the sort of person to organise a handover of equipment, tools and knowledge to allow someone else to maintain the website.

This was the main reason for me to upload to CycleBlaze. As it seems to be a team of people maintaining it, and is cloud based, it is likely to have some sort of succession plan.

I do, however, hope I am wrong about the longevity of CGOAB. It will be a sad day if it does disappear. Many amazing journals documented in a way that doesn't really happen any more -- e.g. Peter Gostelow's account of cycling from Japan to the UK over three years is inspirational-- if it happened today, I imagine it would be on Instagram/ YouTube/ SubStack etc, which aren't really as accessible as an 'open' journal, nor lend themselves as well to documenting a big trip IMO.

Agree that he appears to have no succession plan.

I wonder whether Jeff Arnim has one here?