We’re planning on reaching Scotland in late June or early July, so we probably won’t need to consult Transport Scotland’s Trunk Road Gritter Tracker. However, I’m not quite willing to leave this to chance, so I’m saving the link here. Many of the gritters have been assigned names by schoolchildren, and the tracker allows you…

Friend Lee shares two resources for crowd-sourcing hospitality: Couch Surfing It’s not a niche (cycling) crowd, and I found I put more time into considering which people NOT to send requests to. But hosts are all ages, so one simply rapidly gets better at identifying hosts you’d imagine being comfortable around. But when a profile…

Caitlin Giddings of Bicycling shares the wealth of experience gained from a US coast-to-coast ride: 9 Things I Wish I Had Known Before Riding Across the Country.

We’re going to have to work out the logistics of getting our bodies and bikes to Land’s End and then back home from John o’Groats. (Given enough time, of course, we could cycle it … ) Friend Lee helpfully points out the Caledonian Sleeper as an overnight ride home from Inverness to London. The Caledonian…

There are a lot of commercial resources for lejog, ranging from route map books to fully guided tours. Cycle: End-to-End Cycling Land’s End to John o’Groats? Get the End to End pack Land’s End to John O’Groats Cycling Holidays End to End / LEJOG End to End Cycle Route – A Safer Way B&B Reviews