This is our final day of preparation before departing for Scotland tomorrow and I think we are in pretty good shape. The bikes have been packed up in the van and have departed for Scotland this afternoon. Rick has arrived at my house and we have enjoyed the regulatory pasta dinner.
Unfortunately, the weather prospects for tomorrow are not great. We are planning to fly up to Wick with our good friend Mark Farmer in his Columbia 400 plane. For those of you who are not followers of such things this is a single engine but high performance light aircraft. Mark has all of his instrument ratings and the aircraft is equipped so it can take off and land in poor weather but we may delay our departure to let the rain blow through. Hopefully the weather will buck up.
There are various events scheduled tomorrow night by the organisers and we are expecting to get an early night in preparation for our 7.00am start.
Here is an interesting fact for you, the total distance we travel uis 1050 miles but the killer fact is the amount verticle feet we climb during all the hills over the route. All in all we we climb about 73,000 feet. To put that in perspective it will be like cycling up and down Everest 2.5 times!
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