KLR650 around the world with passenger
Hi,

My girlfriend and i have been traveling around the world since June 2012. We have driven across Canada into Alaska and down to San Deigo. We are planning to travel for the next 10 or 20 years or longer. We want to really spend months in cities to really know what its like to live all over the world. We want to learn about the different people of the world and try to see life from their perspectives. We want to know why we need all the horrible things like war and poverty and try and get people to come together and find solutions.

We are both on a 2011 KLR650 with all our luggage and camping gear. We are 300lb over the maximum bike weight of 833lb. We Could use alot of advice on keeping the bike running for many years and the best way to travel through different countries. I will start posting all the issues and questions and daily reports of how the trip is going.

We will be staying in San Deigo for a few weeks before entering Mexico so we have time to get ready and find someone to help us with maintenance. I think some people are going to help me install the Eagle Mike Dohicky and do a valve adjustment. What else should I do? I was thinking better rear supension because we scrape speed bumps but i am not sure.

After Mexico we will travel to Cuba (maybe without the bike) then central and south america. Hopefully we can then take a boat to Africa.

Regards,
Alex
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There are 3,000 pictures (from north america more to come) and a diary of our trip on our facebook page at the link below.

http://www.facebook.com/theperfectworld2012