Touring Bike Build For Bikepacking

The bike is built and the shakedown rides are completed (3 of them). I’m very happy with the way it turned out. I modified Emily’s old ’90s model Specialized Hard Rock mountain bike. It should be a fine starter bike for me to do a few overnight trips. This will help me see if doing bike tours / bikepacking is my thing. It is ready for a Fall ’24 ride(s). I think I’m going to do an overnight trip on the Natchez Trace Parkway when the weather cools down a bit for my first overnight trip.