Guiding Factors

[beerjonny]

Hello everyone - new member here, been reading a while and thought it was time to join up!

So I have been working towards a rtw bike trip starting in the spring of '13 when my bills are squared away. My plan is to cut ties, sell my stuff, quit my job and get on the move for several years... really the plan is just to leave and let the rest fall where and how it doe.

The trip will originate in Eastern Canada and I am having a tough time deciding on a route.

The more reaserch I do, the more I worry about the issue of paperwork.

The two questions that really get to me are:

- how to get all of the visas, ins, licences, etc all lined up when alot of them require passports, pictures, and forms to be mailed off and some have time restrictions as to how early you can apply? I plan to be on the road for four-ten years....

- considering that, does this or will this restrict where I can go and dictate my schedule (along with the seasons of course)?


The original plan was to cross Canada from east to west, then north to Alaska then hopefully to Russia although I know bike transport is very expensive/near impossible now. So I am working on what the best plan B would be but need to determine what my guiding factors are.

Thanks for any links or insight.

Jonathan

[oneworldbiker]

be carful as your friend who is in the army WILL NOT be allowed to enter these counties for about 10 years after he leaves the armed forces.

Russia
Any of the stans
mongolia
laos
cambodia
south Korea
vietnam
Iran
Iraq
China
The above countries will not give him permission to enter or a Visa. The Mod will need to be contacted and permission asked.( Always denied due to him becoming a security risk.)
I know this as I had to get permission to visit the above countries when I went RTW 6 YEARS AGO.( I was refused permission.) I applied for the visa, I had to be escorted and was given a very strict route that avoided military areas and some of the best coutryside.
I have now been out of the armed forces for 12 years so am now planning RTW again and this time I am have no problems and no escorts. Russia is now letting me go anywhere. My RTW trip starts in 2011 but going to russia next month in a 4x4 to check some of the route and to test sleeping equipment. tent. and to do the trans sib railway to Vlad.
The bike I'm taking is a Honda Goldwing 1800 model year 2009.

TRY NOT TO MENTION THAT YOUR FRIEND IS OR HAS SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCE AS THIS IS A RED FLAG ON ANY VISA APPLICATION...THIS IS MORE SO EVEN FOR FRIENDLY NATION VISA ( USA) its amazing what info they hold about every one of us..

Hope this helps

Oneword Biker
spend it now as you can't take it with you.

After reading the post again I think i have answered the wrong post as it involved a serving serviceman who retires in a couple of years. trip starts same place.. IF so sorry.

Paper work and visas sould be done about 3 months before you plan to leave.

[oneworldbiker]

[beerjonny]

Thanks for the note and welcome - that is some info that could definitely alter our route!

[oneworldbiker]

Is your friend british or Canadian military? As I know for British service men its 10 years. Not sure on time Scale for Canadian service men.

[beerjonny]

Canadian - he's going to check out the details to see the restrictions