Quote Originally Posted by MomOnBike
I guess what I need now from you-all is encouragement, route suggestions, tips for getting the flab into shape in a month, packing lists, reasons to bail- - -that sort of thing.

Give me a hand here. (she whimpers) Please?
I know I will be 'dating myself' here ... but stand up and sing a couple refrains of I Am Woman!!!

I think that is an aweseome adventure and one I would certainly be giving a lot of thought to if I were in your biking shoes. OTOH ... I would opt for an adventure that, like Nuthatch, would give me some physical support; either a biking partner and/or 'sag'. But on the other other hand you can plan the trip to include the phone numbers of places along your route that if you run into problems when 'you are here' that you would have someone to call. Like anything else in life the scary part about doing something new is taking those first nervous steps but once you get through it the best part is looking back and patting yourself on the back knowing you did something that was outside of your 'comfort zone'.

You go girl ... I salute my fellow 'Mom's On Bikes'!