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Originally Posted by Rainville
Route starts in Switzerland, will go through Iran, the Stans, the China pass to Pakistan, India, Myanmar, Thailand (hopefully) then all the way to Indonesia where I'll be shipping the bike to S-America and go up north to N-America.
- Eat/Drink/Sleep/Repairs/Misc: 24'000$
- Fuel: 4'000$
- Shipping (Indo to Chile): 2'000$
- Shipping (Colombia to Panama): 1'000$
- Shipping (Canada to Europe): 1'500$
- Flights tickets: 1'200$
- China Crossing: 1'300$
- CDP: 500$
- Visas: 500$
- TOTAL: 35'000$ or so
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Howdy
Are you running a spreadsheet to record your costs? I am somewhat obsessive compulsive with spreadsheets but they can really identify where efficiencies can be found to lengthen the trip.
Are you 100% committed to taking your own bike, or flexible?
The reason I mention this is prior to covid I began planning our trip OS with a vehicle and the costs were much more than I thought they would be, once everything was recorded. I then did the same without taking a vehicle and the savings were stunning.
This was for a 4wd and a family of four and I expected the transport savings were going to be much better taking the vehicle, but surprisingly those savings were not there, even using public transport for many areas. (you would think 4 in a car would be cheaper than public transport but over the whole trip, not so).
The savings available on Skyscanner website were pretty stunning.
Based on your costs, 16% is just transporting the bike.
Broken down your trip seems to be;
Outer Eurasia
Asia
South East Asia
South America
North America
The outer Eurasia could be done as a loop on your bike. Arrive back home, rest up for a week, and head off with your soft motorcycle luggage to wherever the cheapest flight gets you. Buy a bike that suits the country you are in and use it to do a big loop of wherever you can go with it, arrive back and sell it.
Rinse and repeat.
Just a thought.
And it saves you gifting your bike to that nice border guard in Bolivia when Covid 2.0 strikes;
"Lo enviare, confía en mi"