Not only think hard of all that Colebatch says but remember you have a moral (if not actual) obligation to your sponsor(s) and suppliers to keep your end of the deal.
That is to first do the trip whatever obstacles arise before and during it - and then after get the publicity, articles, books or whatever on sale.

Wherever, whatever your trip goes, most of it will become a blurred 'mish-mash' of disconnected memories, with the hundreds of minor memories lost.
I know that only too well, from reading Colebatch's book!

Whatever happened, wherever we closed the day, without fail Colebatch sat or lay down with his LapTop for 20 or more minutes writing up the days events. The locations included -
- in a tent pitched on ice and snow remains, at over 2,400M altitude, above a frozen lake and having shortly before had a bad river crossing that soaked his sleeping bag and clothes,
- in an old hut, running with rats and huge wood ants, after a day in which we managed less than 5 miles, including pushing bikes through a chest high river - the rest being pure bog through which we just manhandled the bikes (actual miles ridden on the bike was possibly less than half!),
- after a 24 hour riding day (close to the Arctic Circle) in pouring cold rain having to cope with no electrics on his bike meaning he could not stop, and a succession of flats on mine, coupled with gummed up radiator that meant I never got far at a time before having to stop,
- a night out as Guests of Honour at Harley Davidson Bar, Kabarovsk

without fail my last recollection of every day was of him tapping the keyboard. THAT was part of the commitment that is needed.

For myself, I prefered to dig deep in my pocket and fall asleep!
But I wonder, if the pockets were not there, would I take on such a commitment?
At my age, probably not.
If I were younger? Despite being a fairly determined person, probably not either!

(And as you may know from my posts, writing words is no problem to me - from the comfort of my home or dacha.)

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