US-Canada-Alaska-Australia Route Planning

[El_Duderino]

Hello Everyone,

I´m new to the Forum - will therefore start with a short intro

Born 1982 - German (born, raised, still live here) - started with motorcycles in 2007 touring Europe during holidays, added a WR250R in 2021 to get away from the tarmac - worked out very well - toured parts of Europe on the TET and read tons of books on motorcycle RTW travels over time

So here I am - in the early stages of planning my own first overseas motorcycle travel

Good thing - I already know what it want to see - NA (the US, Canada, Alaska) and OZ (been there 3 times already so i know the place a bit, but only the coastline from Adelaide to cairns)

and which bike to take - the WR of course - i spend some time to do the overland mods and now it´s the perfect bike for me as the 250cc slow me down a bit (in the past I struggled in keeping the pace down during travels, the touring with the WR has been so much more relaxing so far because speeding is just not possible) - and i gives me the freedom to explore the off roads (i attended several offroad trainings by the time and did TET in Poland and Hungary ... will keep working on that but i get along very well already)

So now I´m trying to figure out the 1st Draft of the route to take a bit more in detail

For the NA part I like to follow a route similar to the one described by Frank Stelges (https://www.stelges.de/X-USA_07.html) which he did in 2007 - starting in the Northeast - going down to the Keys - crossing up north towards Canada, then Alaska and back to the US to finish at the Westcoast (he went back to New York)

As every traveler I try to pick good seasons for the respective region - because I just want to have a good time on the road - no need to produce click bait YouTube stuff while touring in extreme winter or summer - just a relaxed journey

so, my current idea is starting in New York 1st of April - take a month down to the Keys, make it into approx. the middle of the states during May, into Canada end of June - arrive in Alaska by end of July, spend august there and then head south towards LA - approx. be there in October

that's approx. 7 Month for this part - there is room in my planning to extend this if needed - I plan to spend 18 month on the road in total - but October is already late for the west coast ? .... this is the first point I came across were I struggle in my planning - and where I need advice - should I start the whole trip earlier (in march? - but then weather on the east coast is a gamble) - should I speed up in the middle of the US ? .... or is the rough plan ok and I´m overthinking ?

From there the plan is to fly the bike and myself to Sydney (I plan to do every transportation during the trip by plane - also from Germany to the US and also back from OZ as I just can´t get along with the disadvantages shipping causes - and I can afford the plane)

So I will be in OZ lets say from somewhere in November on ... maybe end of November

In OZ I got friends in the Barossa where I like to spend Christmas and new year - so I will skip Victoria as I already know it and head on from Sydney to Adelaide Beginning of December and basically spend December around Adelaide.

Then I like to follow the foot steps of Rainer rawer (Rainer's Australien Abenteuer Outback-Guide: Routenliste) - head west in January, then north in February - explore the famous outback tracks (canning stock, French line etc.) in march, head north in April and carry on via cape York in may - strolling down the east coast approx. June/July

I would be very happy if I can get advice regarding this Drafted route in order to avoid mistakes already been made in the past - I´m full aware that there will be several things which will not work as planned an I´m fine with that - but it would be good at least to exclude the well known stuff I´m not aware of by today

Thank you very much for you attention and maybe advice

Cheers, Jonas