Hey thanks for the reply! Bike is sweet but I need time to get used to its size and weight. Big change compared to small SE Asia bike I'm used to driving .

As for the must do on my trip:

• Kyrgystan
• Tadjikistan
• Pakistan
• Northern India
• Nepal

Those are the highest on my excitement tier list for the moment . Good thing is, I don't need to ship the bike to get there. Although I'll have to use the costly guiding transfer through China to reach Pakistan.

After that, I'm looking forward to SE Asia as I just love the place and can't seem to get enough of it.

Australia is really not on my list, too expensive to get there and too expensive to ride through just to see ride some flat arid roads with nothing much around (sorry if I anger some people there hehe).

The plan really is to ship the bike (and myself) from Indonesia directly to Chile if that can be done. Research needs to be done there.

After that, looking forward to do S-America ! But only if money permits it.

Depending on my budget on the departure day, I might opt to stop in Indonesia and ship the bike home. Or even ride back, maybe through Japan/Korea/Russia/Mongolia.

All depends on the money I'll still have when I get to Indo I guess.

For the moment, if all goes perfectly well, I might have 40 to 50k in June 2023. That's with the bike and most of the gear already paid for.

Let's say 40K, would you think it's doable to do the full world trip? including shipping from Asia to S-America, boat ride through the darien gap and ship again from NY/Canada to EU? Difficult to know.