I have a dream, & I need advice on a few things.

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

OK - I'll concede the 20 miles a day bit - thought I had read that here, but it could have been another posting.

Motivational - not sure it was.

Meds & logistics are not the issue in my experience - it is a country's restrictions that are the issue. Each country has different regulation on what they 'sell' or administer/permit. Each country has different restrictions on what you can and can't take across a border legally. Even in Europe some of my asthma meds were problematical - our saving grace being that often we were not checked at border crossings (Lithuania-Belarus, Belarus-Poland, Poland-Slovakia, Hungary-Serbia, Serbia-Macedonia, Macedonia- Greece, Greece-Turkey all needed passports getting out). We were checked and out luggage searched when entering Poland from Belarus though, and it was only good fortune that resolved that problem and did not result in the loss of essential medication that I can not survive without and my asthma meds are not new treatment that will not be as easily available. Logistics is not the problem - politics is, as always.
(right off on my commute....)

 

[MikeG]

Motivational - not sure it was.

You can't help yourself, can you? I haven't the first idea why you are looking for an argument, or to score points. You aren't the only one who has travelled, you know, and you aren't the only one who has come up against medicine issues abroad. One day I'll tell the story about being strip-searched in public on the Nigeria / Cameroune border on a raised dais in front of 200 locals by a narcotics team anxious for a bribe......

 

[Cringles]

Touring bike wise, I like the look of the Surly LHT. I've taken some advice from people about custom building my own. But I am that kinda person who just likes to buy off the shelf. Would a off the shelf Surly or even Dawes not be just as good? Unfortunately, no bike shops in N. Ireland even stock touring bikes.