The image shows the planned route in Google Earth. For navigation I plan to use a Garmin Legend Hcx GPS unit mounted on the handlebars with paper backup. I have heard a lot of horror sories about using GPS units but found this unit to be very reliable as long as you spend the time set the Mapbase software and unit up properly. At this time I would hope to update the blog on a daily basis during the ride including a track update. An issue to be overcome at this time is that I don't want to carry and expensive laptop and am therefore looking at the option of an Asus EeePC laptop. Unfortunately this is a Linux based device and as such unable to support standard Garmin Mapbase software so some work is needed to work out how this might be achieved.