Just wanted to bounce an idea off y'all, see if anybody has any useful input.
Just like everybody who's ever thrown a leg over a Beemer, I'd like to ride to Alaska someday. The original idea was take a few weeks off and ride up there and back to wherever I'm living when I get around to it.
But I was talking to my non-motorcycling brother the other weekend and he said why limit it to that- why not ride up to Prudhoe from Ushaia, the world's southernmost city down in the tip of Argentina? Why not ride as to pole-to-pole as one can go on dry land? (Edit: I just checked MapQuest and it shows a couple of villages further south but not by much.)
I know it's been done before so I don't have any illusions of being some kind of trailblazer, and in fact I think I read somewhere that all the roads connecting to form the route along the west coasts of North and Central and South Americas have some sort of official designation like Grand Sierra Highway or something like that???
Anyway, the idea has my imagination piqued. I don't see doing it in the next five years but you never know. I also definitely don't see doing it on The BatBike, and in fact a non-BMW may be a great choice.
Anybody done this ride, or know anybody who has? If so, I'd like any input specific to it (rather than general advice for interconinental adventure touring- I can get plenty of that from various sources).
My big questions are how much time will I need, what's the best time of year to start and finish (considering the seasonal opposition of the hemispheres), ballpark estimate of costs (not including possibly buying a bike), etc.
And the final question: would I be more completely nuts than usual to consider this???