Your first tour experience.....

[Baggy]

Well, I haven't been on a tour yet and now I'm not sure I want to suggest it

 

[longers]

Anyone else got any experiences?

Did my first proper one this year and wrote about it in touring. It was a bit boring by comparison though .

 

[longers]

Well, I haven't been on a tour yet and now I'm not sure I want to suggest it

Make him think it was his idea?

 

[Crackle]

Well, I haven't been on a tour yet and now I'm not sure I want to suggest it

Can you haul your gear up a 33% hill. If so, you'll be OK.

 

[Baggy]

Make him think it was his idea?

Can you haul your gear up a 33% hill. If so, you'll be OK.

I'd have no problem carting two laden panniers and a credit card up a 33% gradient.

 

[Chuffy]

Can you haul your gear up a 33% hill. If so, you'll be OK.

I have every faith in Baggy's load hauling capabilities.
And I have suggested a tour, but we can't leave the cat unattended....

 

[Crackle]

And I have suggested a tour, but we can't leave the cat unattended....

<<<<<<<Noodles here, used to have one of those timer bowls and a load of dried food which would see her through a weekend.

Friendly house and cat sitters where used for week and two week hols

 

[Chuffy]

<<<<<<<Noodles here, used to have one of those timer bowls and a load of dried food which would see her through a weekend.

Friendly house and cat sitters where used for week and two week hols

<hollow laugh>
Oh bless your innocence and naivety...
Our cat is a million year old diva, with fussy tastes, a penchant for lap and brush on demand and a habit of changing her mind over the food that she'll eat on a daily basis. Oh and did I mention the kidney tablets (daily), the steroids (as her skin allergy demands) and the 'stool bulking agent' that has to go in every meal? That's before we get onto her hairy bloomers and the way that they collect the occasional nugget of poo.

High maintenance? Oh yes.....

 

[Crackle]

Aha. I get it. Your cat owns two humans whom it's taken a while to train up for the job

 

[Chuffy]

Aha. I get it. Your cat owns two humans whom it's taken a while to train up for the job

Yup. Spot on.

Dear god, someone save us.....

 

[Crackle]

Any more tour experiences worth writing up here?

 

[papercorn2000]

Can't you just bungee the cat to your panniers?

 

[Kirstie]

Nothing quite as blinding as the misadventure described above, but on the first day of my lejog I turned on my GPS and it told me i was 3,800 miles off course and should be somewhere in the egyptian/libyan border in the middle of the desert.

On my first ever tour I tore a quadricep after 20 miles and so that was the end of that...