Convincing the other half!!
Hi Everyone
My girlfriend and I have been planning to do a RTW trip for a while now. To begin with we were thinking of back packing our way round and getting a couple of other activities in (I've done a bit of sailing and we thought it would be good to sail from somewhere like Turkey to India), stay in Australia for a while, travel a while through New Zealand (I was a bit inspired by the Ultimate Journey website) on to Tahiti, Easter Island and then on through South, Central America and then on from there.
But while chatting with my girlfriends brother he suggested looking into travelling round by motorbike, this idea has really grabbed me, I love the idea of this, the idea of being able to change your plans and see something that takes your fancy, stop at any point to camp and wake up in a remote area with nothing there but you and the scenery  Unfortunately my girlfriend is a little more pragmatic than I am and although she sees the advantages she isn't totally taken by the idea. At the moment her main concern is the amount of money it is going to cost us  to do this and more importantly how much more it will cost over backpacking. We are planning to start our trip next September from Estonia (we are currently in the UK to save money but will be moving to Estonia for a couple of months prior to our trip). A part of this money worry comes because at present I am riding an SV650S which neither of us think is comfortable enough for us to do the trip so we would like to sell that and get ourselves a DL650 which will end up costing us around £1000.
So what I guess I am asking is has anyone go through anything like this and how did they go about discussing it, I really don't want any suggestions of splitting up as we are really happy together. Also can anyone give any handy hints on selling a motorbike (I've never done it before) so any sort of hints would be good, places to advertise in the UK or anything really
Thanks again everyone, this forum is really a great place to come to for information
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