It's such a long trip for me but the week before may be better anyway, another thing about the week before is you don't have to deal with all of those trouble making motorcycle riders.
You can control your GoPro via your smartphone and not have to reach it, however I would recommend running a charging cable to it or the battery will drain fast, also have your passenger do the controlling.
Instead of fixing the cracks in my right side cowling I am looking to see if anyone has one for a reasonable price. My 99 is one of the purple ones but if I can get one cheap from another year, I would be good with that.