As requested, here is the financial summary. I’ll preface it with a little information on our spending habits for the trip. We stayed in hostels when we could (and they weren’t too grim) but we also splashed out on nice hotels. We ate almost exclusively in restaurants and we didn’t make any attempt to do so frugally. We flew the bike when it needed to travel and didn’t mess around with sea freight. I did a lot of the work on the motorcycle, but not all of it. We started with much of the gear needed for the trip but also bought a fair amount of high-end stuff. In general we were conscious of spending, but gave preference to efficiency, convenience, and comfort. It was the vacation of a lifetime, after all.
| Gas/Food/Lodging | $16,917.26 |
| Gear | $1,800.82 |
| Transport | $2,680.45 |
| Motorcycle | $3,793.21 |
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| $25,191.74 | |
* Gas/Food/Lodging also includes miscellaneous day to day expenses like park fees, tolls, etc.
* Gear is just the new personal gear we had to purchase for the trip.
* Transport is shipping for the bike and flights for us.
* Motorcycle is accessories, prep, maintenance, and repair costs – I had the bike already.
Interesting. So that is $25k spent in how much time?
Well, “gear” and “motorcycle” started getting spent a few months before the trip, but the bulk of that sum went up in smoke over 4 months during the trip.