This is going to be a lame answer I'm afraid but only you can answer this. really, only you know what would be best. I have travelled solo and then my wife has flown out to join me. Both experiences were excellent but in very different ways. All I would say is -don't misread "solo" for "alone". Wherever you travel you won' t be alone. There are always other people around.
As far as you health is concerned that's not easy to answer for anyone but you. But either way it"s great to hear that you're planning a trip. I 'm sure you won't regret it.

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I would suggest that 2 bikes would be good. This would would give you the freedom to go to places you may hesitate to go on your own.

We travelled 2 up through Africa to Cape Town but (almost) always on our own, being young and foolish we embarked on some 'adventures' that we would, no doubt, have second thoughts about now but even then we were cautious about certain things simply because we had no back up.

Organised tour is the fall back if you can't find anyone to travel with. Having met a lot of tour trucks in Africa (not quite the same thing) the big brother house element would scare me off.

What Magnon said. Find someone you're comfortable with and is comfortable with you.

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Thanks for comments, it probably would be best to find someone else to go with atleast wife will feel better if I have company

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Paul "Every county of England, every country of Europe and every (part of every inhabited) continent of the Earth" 94% done! What's left? Central America, East, Central and West Africa, Australia & New Zealand

Super Tramp,

I admire your courage and spirit, and prefer to travel solo myself. Given you're at risk health wise, I think you have already answered the questions yourself. An organized tour might be too fast paced or not. Contact a few tour operators and ask for their opinion. It would be foolish not to share your condition with whom ever you end up riding with.

My advice for you, don't ride alone and if something happens you'll live to ride another day.

Happy trails.

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2008/09 - NJ to Costa Rica and back to NJ
2012/13 - NJ to Northern Argentina, Jamaica, Cuba and back to NJ
2023 - Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia...back to Peru.

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First - its good to hear you aren't letting your condition get in the way of your dreams.

Secondly - Don't write off the solo adventure.

As previously stated, the answer ultimately lies with you and your knowledge of the realities of your condition. I'd like to pitch in with my experience, however, in case it helps you come to a decision.

At 17 years old I was diagnosed with epilepsy. A very mild form, the incidence of seizures was initially around once every year or two. Now, having discovered my triggers, I haven't had one for over 12 years. Those triggers were a lack of sleep and altitude. Altitude is easy to control, lack of sleep, less so, especially when travelling. (I find a small supply of Temazepam helps deal with occasional sleeplessness.)

I decided at 17 that I wasn't going to let the epilepsy stop me doing the things I wanted to do. I just figured the risks in with all the others. It soon became apparent that due to my condition, it was easier for me to plan solo trips than make my friends adapt their plans to suit my needs (although I still did plenty of trips with them, when they were appropriate).

Since then I have climbed ice solo, mountaineered solo, snowboarded solo on extreme descents and in the backcountry, ski-toured solo, canoed solo, ridden my motorcycle on long trips solo and I'm off to the interior of iceland on a solo cycle tour in August. The fact is, since discovering the peculiar pleasures of solo adventures, I can't get enough of them!

There is, of course, a very small chance that I'll have a seizure at an inopportune moment one of the these days and it will be, as they say, curtains for Mr Cartney. However, this is just one risk among many and I mitigate for it by reducing risks in other ways. I am cautious in the mountains and ride my motorbike like an elderly vicar, and I don't do anything risky after a bad night's sleep. I reckon the risks of me coming a cropper are probably less than someone who, say, razzes their bike like a loon or is sloppy in their navigation.

Adventure is not adventure without some element of risk. You simply have to ask - am I prepared to accept the risks presented by this situation? If those risks are acceptable then go do it and don't let anyone else make that decision for you.

Just use your experience and judgement lead you to the correct decision.

Have a good trip, whatever you decide!

Matt


PS - A scottoiler is not necessarily a good idea in the desert as the oily chain picks up grit and increases wear, so I believe. I used a 'dry' wax type lube and it seemed to work well.

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