Hi everyone,
we are a family of four just beginning to plan a 6-12month trip via motorcycle. We want to leave the fall of 2019, and our boys will be 8 and 11 at that time. We will be leaving from the Pacific Northwest and traveling east to Saskatchewan and then south from there, hovering in the western states until hurricane season passes in Mexico.
We made this decision 3 days ago, so really, the plan is the loosest it can be. We plan to rent our home to help fund the travel, I speak fluent (But rusty) Mexican-accented Spanish, my husband is a gear head and can fix bikes, and my kids love a laugh, adventure, and meeting new people and seeing new places.

Do any of you have any kind tips to offer, of what type of gear you've used, what kind of experience you have had through various countries, where we might want to avoid?? Our plan, having barely taken shape yet, is to make it as far as Peru (chile seems a stretch, considering how far it is... Though perhaps we could save time shipping bikes and flying home partway...)

Nothing is out of bounds, but remember there really is no specific plan yet, we are just gathering intel at the moment. Both of us are seasoned street-bike riders, though my experience off-road is zero. We plan on rectifying that over the next 2 yrs.

Thanks all, I look forward to to reading your ideas and suggestions.
D