Hi everyone!
I'm a 28 year old guy from Germany that likes traveling with a bike - just like you guys. I bought my first motorcycle when I was 20 years old. It was a Honda CB 500 S, so a street bike. While riding that bike and having a lot of fun with it I realized, that riding offroad was even more fun for me. But my Honda CB 500 S was absolutely not made for riding offroad.
That's when I started looking for DR350S on ebay and I was lucky and got one for 800 € with 30000 km on the clock. The plastics were painted bad (paint was coming off), the seat cover was ripped and a lot of the wearing parts had to be replaced. But I got lucky with the engine, it has now about 47000 km on the clock without rebuilding the engine yet. It's still not even burning a lot of engine oil.

And two years ago I bought also a proper 2 stroke enduro bike: Beta RR200. The Beta is just: FUN FUN FUN! But of course not usable for long adventure trips. So I got three motorcycles right now.

I did already some short 1-week-"adventures" in several countries in Europe.

The adventure I'm planning to do next (if corona allows it) is to ride to Senegal/Gambia and back in 5 weeks starting in November 2021.
Therefore I'm rebuilding my DR350S completely right now (except for the engine - that has to wait until next year after the trip). After 5 years of riding that bike, I do know pretty good what's good and what's not so good on my DR350.
So I've already replaced a lot of parts but am not finished yet. Some stuff I'm replacing just because they are worn out, but I'm also upgrading some parts (better suspension front and rear, big 22 liter tank, other carburetor, ...).
Maybe I'll open another thread for my planned trip to get some tips from you guys - or maybe even team up for a couple of days and ride together.

See you off the road!