Awesome looking bike. 
Sounds like you know where you are taking it. Thing is if you don't that if you do a lot of off-road on a trip more applicable to this site rather than ADVrider and compare it to your normal 3 day rides, you have to really plan it. Often people give themselves a certain amount of months and an A and B and those are usually from one end to a continent to another. And in that time you ofter spend ages on reatively short sections of open dirt roads (compared to the overall distance) and don't do enough miles and thus end up on the paved roads. 4WD tracks take a lot of planning to get anywhere and usually result in a much shorter trip.
If you want to go hard take nothing and use hotels. That way you can ride more of the day. Finding a camp spot in the dark sucks big time and can easily end you up in a lot of trouble when you find yourself in someones garden the next morning.
If you don't camp you will probably find more challenging terrain in your planning stage than if you don't. Try and find the countries state forrest maps.
In my area a lot of National parks are off limits, and the dirt roads are usually farm roads and fire trails. I'm just coming into the single trail type of riding, and in my area I struggle to find places for that. So if I'm going long distance, I'd take the comfortable bike because it flies on that stuff. But only because I have one. Probably won't if I'd only have the DRZ.
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