If someone can assure me the rest stop food will not be merely Snapple WATER+bananas+those partially hydrogenated orange fluorescent crackers with peanut butter inside at EVERY stop like 2 years ago, I might do it. What on earth happened in that department? All the cool snacks from 5 years ago - Lara Bars, Paley bars, interesting juices etc etc.  I can only imagine the suppliers must be getting meaner and leaner, or someone forgot to do the rounds of begging and schmoozing (yes I've been there - it's a tough one).

In case you're wondering why I'd be so hung up on rest stop food when I am supposed to be just enjoying the ride - I can't help it, I'm in marketing and PR. I believe it's all about Total Experience, or people (like me) won't come back. Especially when it's $42+ to get on my bike - more than double what it probably cost to run my car for a day, when I had one!