This sums up my day on the road, today. Spot the mistake 🫣🤣

Keeping things a bit 🤫 on Thomas Ivor Jones’s whereabouts for now but he is making good progress, and has set off this morning ‘on the bubble’ with his ambitious plan. Thank you so much to a kind friend of the family who put him up last night and put *still* water in his bidons 🤣

Celebrating a year off from exam results. Solidarity with everyone else! 🤣

In other news… our in utero ‘stowaway’ from our own LE JoG journey in 2018 is now ready for adventure, too!

Parental #DotWatching this morning…

Wahoo still flaky this morning. I’d be less cross if Wahoo had ‘fessed up and warned people. I’m sure they have plenty of T&C cover but if it’s known that there’s a problem, say so. Thinking the device was dead, I ordered a Bolt v3 yesterday. Cancelled now, on principle.

Wondering how >£20 per night for a single person with a 1 man tent and a bicycle to camp, became so prevalent, and why this isn’t re-starting a conversation about what happened to the organisations (some charitable) which were meant to make travel affordable for youngsters.

Has anyone ever managed to hitch a lift with a bike on the freight ferry from Stornoway to Ullapool? I think there used to be an overnight sailing?

Thomas Ivor has made it from Land’s End to Oban, via Dublin, Belfast and Arran, on his less-than-conventional route - and he’s not done with the island-hopping, yet…

Attempting to do the software patch on Ruth’s Wahoo Bolt v1 has caused it to crash. It’s stuck on the ‘Wi-Fi connected’ [Dismiss] screen and won’t respond to any button pushes. Severely testing my patience now. We’ve paid for this problem, for almost a week.

His phone’s started playing up, probably due to water ingress, so Thomas Ivor Jones is suffering on the bike tonight, in acoustic mode. Without the confidence of seeing the gradient profile and mileage to go. Thanks a bundle, Wahoo for continuing to leave users in the lurch!

Thomas Ivor is closing in on Thurso. Game on for the next plot twist - he isn’t going to JoG just yet 🤣

Our Wahoo Bolts (we’ve 4!) are patched. It came out yesterday; this email came at 0700 today. Wahoo haven’t tweeted for 3 days; that was about their CEO. Feels like a coverup of sorts. Why not ‘We’ve had a problem, we’re really sorry, we’ve patched it, please update firmware’?

Day 15 of #LEJoG and Thomas Ivor Jones is still going North, after a dash across Orkney last night. Nobody offer him a lift to the Faeroes, please - coming home via Hirtshals 🇩🇰 and Hook of Holland 🇳🇱 to Harwich would be a fitting conclusion but he’s due back at VIth Form next week!

Nine years ago, Thomas Ivor Jones and his first bikepacking setup featured at Dave Cornthwaite’s ‘Yestival’ - as he closes in on his target, 15 days after he left Land’s End, solo and self-supported, here’s a reminder of where he came from, on his cycling journey… youtu.be/wnzGQjyjc0w?si…

More on this, tomorrow…