This is only an update, have no new questions.
Took another look at average weather conditions, decided to bring one short sleeve jersey and one long sleeve jersey instead of two long sleeve. And made some other changes in my rain gear plans. Leaving the sandals at home. Bringing hiking shoes with waterproof gaiters, I hope if I wear the hiking shoes in the rain without rain pants that the water dripping down my skin does not get inside the gaiters, which it probably will do to saturate the socks and hiking shoes. Tentatively bringing two long sleeve shirts, one pair long pants for off bike wear. Besides the two jerseys, bringing two pair of bike pants that can be converted to bike shorts. That said, when I finally pack and see how much weight and volume my stuff consumes, the list should get shorter later, it always does.
My helmet mounted mirror has a small threaded clamp that clamps onto my visor on the left side. I discovered that I could do a bit of surgery on the visor for my helmet and that allowed me to put my mirror on the right side of my helmet. That should work great. I will bring the eye glasses mounted mirror as a backup, but I anticipate no problems with my helmet mounted mirror on the right side. My left eye has better vision than my right eye, but there is nothing I can do about that.
Made a hostel reservation for Perth late in my trip for one night before I arrive in Edinburgh at the end of my trip. I have hostel reservations for the first five nights and the last four nights in UK. I now have 34 consecutive days with no reservations, but planning on camping most of that time, especially when in England, so I am not concerned about the lack of reservations. I am sure I will have some zero distance days, typically weather related so I do not want to make more reservations at this time.
I have lots of tracks and waypoints saved in my GPS for flexibility in routing and where to stay at night when in Scotland. I really do not have a schedule, i will just do what seems logical when I can see the shorter term forecasts, while checking the longer range ones to make sure I can finish on time.
Am mostly packed. As usual I have too much stuff packed. But in the past I have regretted some of the last minute shedding of packed items, so properly lightening the load is always difficult.
I want to thank everyone that has made some suggestions. In some cases I did not follow them, but I considered every suggestion.
I leave on June 2, sleep on the plane, arrive on June 3 in EDI. Long range forecast suggests I will need rain gear on the day I arrive and for several days after. But forecasts over a week out can be quite inaccurate
Today it looks like London temp is 35 (C), same with tomorrow. At that high an altitude, I can't figure out what is going on, but I hope things are closer to normal when I am there, if I wanted to go somewhere that hot, I can think of a lot of other places to go. If things look like this just before I leave home in a week, I may bring a pair of shorts and a short sleeve shirt. But I really hate to bring anything that I might only use once or twice for a month and a half long trip.
I have no questions at this time, but if anyone is aware of anything that may disrupt my plans, please let me know. I am aware that there may be a jet fuel shortage in mid July. I recently read that some of the European refineries are able to produce more jet fuel than previously anticipated, thus the shortage should not be as bad as initially predicted.
