Make sure you have a seat that will be comfortable for several hours a day. If you haven't taken longer trips before now you will soon discover that the stock seat is only good for a few hours at best. There are several alternatives that range greatly in cost.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.