Just One More Mile - Initial Planning

Ok, last time I posted it was to record the new departure date following Tracy's course being extended. This time, it's because we've updated the route plan...

When we looked at information on HorizonsUnlimited.com we discovered that the time of year we would be in South America, and in particular the world's southernmost town, Ushuaia, we'd be under a lot of snow... hardly ideal on a motorcycle trip...

So, at the weekend we sat down in front of our huge wall-sized world map, that's shown the same route on our bedroom wall for over 2 years, and started to look at our options. We discovered that if we fly from Auckland, NZ to Los Angeles in April instead of flying to Buenos Aires as originally intended, we could then go North to Alaska and then South all the way to Ushuaia, arriving around late December, when it is warmest (a relative term...). The net effect of all this is to rule out our cross-USA intentions, and to cut the trip short by around 5 months, but making both Alaska and Argentina fit into the best weather seasons...

And so we now have a revised start date, a revised route, a revised (reduced!) budget and a clearer plan of how it will all fit together....

We also did some "points of interest" planning, creating an initial list of must-dos along the outline route and getting ourselves excited all over again... and with 72 weeks until departure that's no bad thing... if you have any suggestions, please drop us a line...

.... next big event in this rather drawn-out saga is on 26th Feb, when Tracy visits the consultant to hopefully get the OK to get back on 2 wheels... fingers crossed!