I've been doing some sums, basically we have have 10 weeks to go from Volograd to Valdivostok, the must important thing to us is to ride through Mongolia as that is somewhere we both really want to ride.
I hope these calculations help someone else also if any experinced travelers think my calcualtions are well off please let me know
I haven't included the cost of living in the calculations as we will be traveling for the same amount of time which ever route we take so the costs of bed and board will be similar taking both routes, i have only included costs and mileage that I believe will differ depending on which route we take.
I imagine that 157 miles per day will be relitively easy to cover in parts of Russia and maybe Kazahstan and places where there are poor quality tarmac roads, how ever I Imagine that in Mongolia we will be looking closer to 100 miles per day and worse if the weather is bad.
I don't think we'll make our final decisions until Ankara in Turkey (where we'll have to get visas) after we know what sort of mileage we are making on the dirt roads in Albania.
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