Touring The Netherlands: Newbie with lotsa questions.

[Holland]

Ladies, thank you very much for your input; you make a lot of sense. I'll be going to a bike shop tomorrow to get fitted and pick up a few things so I can start training.

I spent the past two days reading and mapping out an itinerary. Exciting and stressful. Shootingstar, "super conscientious" is a nice way of putting it, type double-A would be more like it. I'm trying to prepare as much as possible so I could enjoy once I'm on the road.

[shootingstar]

Ladies, thank you very much for your input; you make a lot of sense. I'll be going to a bike shop tomorrow to get fitted and pick up a few things so I can start training.

I spent the past two days reading and mapping out an itinerary. Exciting and stressful. Shootingstar, "super conscientious" is a nice way of putting it, type double-A would be more like it. I'm trying to prepare as much as possible so I could enjoy once I'm on the road.

Do plan carefully what to carry but don't carry too much. You are cycling in a country with access to buy stuff in an emergency. You won't be in the Sahara Desert.

Otherwise you'll regret cycling too much weight for stuff that you may not use or barely use during the trip.