10k is a bit limited, but there are easy ways to make "more" out of it!

- stop all unnecessary running costs at home!!! (rent, not needed insurances)
- avoid cost intensive Visa hassle (Transafrika, Silkroad)
- travel more detailed/slower (use less fuel, less maintenance)
- choose regions where you can live cheap (food, drinks, fuel)
- Regulary use your Tent (wildcamp), get shower at truck fuelstations or in nature.
- cook your own food
- enjoy more nature than urban/toristic areas
- use wifi you find, no local sims
- more water, less

You have two strategy`s:

- Sell your Adventure Bike, fly in and buy local (enfield in India or similar)
- Start from home with your bike
( this decision could add a lot of cash for your trip)

If you cook your own food and eat simple, you will see that even expensive country`s like switzerland arent that expensive..

So fuel costs are mabye more in focus:

https://de.globalpetrolprices.com/ga...esen%20Preisen.


To live on the road cheap (wildcamp) is not in any country easy - so choose wisely ;-)

Even cheap hostels costs something you can save, so choose wisely - and try to use it for socialicing if feeling lonely, not for get a hot shower (what you can find cheaper). Get in touch with locals, offer your manpower for a free or chaper bed.

With considering that you will travel very very long timeframe You mostly dont remember the hostels, s or food you had during your past trips, you will remember people, countrys...

Surfy

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Wise advice from Surfy
I would only add that, if on 4 or more wheels**, having solar power, a fridge so that you can shop at Lidl or buy from locals and being able to make a hot shower in the middle of nowhere is priceless and does wonders for morale not to mention cleanliness!

Topography maps in your satnag help tremendously in finding free, peaceful and beautiful wild spots as does the Park4Night App

** Ooops- apology to MW2K8, I just saw 'motorcycle' so forget all I said but the last paragraph.

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By "kit and motorbike already in situ" I assume you mean "in the starting point for the route you plan to take".

Two cases:

1) Now or soon - Covid-19 means that there are lots of borders which are closed, so it makes sense to reduce border crossings to a minimum; also some countries have things under control (NZ for example) so are attractive in terms of reduced health risk, however on the other hand some of them have achieved this partly by prohibiting entry (like NZ, except from Australia, for example). So, a big country with good Covid-19 management - Canada springs to mind, and Australia would be the second, although you'll have to wait until entry is permitted. For Canada you can at least enter the country, albeit with a two week quarantine.

2) Later (once the Covid-19 dust has settled) - I think I'd go for South Asia.

If it had to be may then it would be from UK to Mongolia via the Stans then back via Russia.
If I could wait till Nov/Dec then it would be a circumnavigation of Africa down the west side and up the east.
I think the length of the Americas would cost more than £10K for me.