Hi Stefano

We're leaving London on the 26 April and heading down through Europe towards Croatia, Bulgaria and on to Istanbul. We then intend to do a tour of Turkey before crossing into Iran and travelling round Iran before heading up to Turkmenistan, Uxbekistan and Krygyzstan.

While planning for this trip it quickly became obvious that it was going to be very hard/ pointless in trying to predict our timing as ultimately, we don't really know HOW long we'll spend in each place (I've always found when travelling that most of my favourite places have been places I've found my chance, not necessarily places i've planned. We want to make sure we're free to explore and take any unplanned opportunities as they arise.

The result of this is that we have no real schedule other than being in Eastern Kyrgyzstan to meet up with hubbers so we can enter China on 18th August.

Some people spend hundreds of hours planning every day of their trip, the problem with that is it only takes one unplanned thing (no matter how small) to comletely throw the itinery into chaos, leaving that person with a choice:- forget the entire itinery or race to catch up and put the itinery back on track (missing lots of things alonf the way). Given how many 'unpredictable' things can happen on an overland trip I don't see the point in tempting fate.

We've always travelled without any real plan, we ride when we want and stop when we've had enough. Granted that was in Europe, but I don't see why we should change.

I know that this doesn't really answer your question but in all honesty we just know/have an itinery. If you have any questions though feel free to ask!

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