Sounds like you got your finances figured out. Details are none of our business, but I think we're all jealous that you can do it.
I have this vintage GT Xizang mountain bike that I've bonded with. I know: mountain bikes to most of you guys are only good for using as wintertime beaters. But I bought mine new in 1995 and over the 16 years since, have fallen ever more in love with her shiny titanium frame. I've already had "Lady Xizang" lots of different places, and I've been thinking that I would like to take her to the rest of the country plus Central America.
If only there were little stickers for the various states, that I could collect and put on the rack, frame or maybe my panniers, like people used to do with old steamer trunks...