High all!
My fiancé and I are gettin’ hitched in October! I’m a school teacher and so we’re taking our honeymoon during the two weeks from Dec. 24 to Jan. 4. We would like to spend the two weeks on our bikes, but we live in Chicago.

So I’m looking for a warmer place to tour through, for as little cost as possible (school teacher...)*

My first thought was Mexico, but I thought I’d toss this question into the touring forum and see what the words of experience might suggest.*

A little about our knowledge and skill base:

1) Neither of us has ever done anything longer than an overnight by bike.*

2) We both live car light in Chicago and regularly have 20 mile days.*

3) She doesn’t have a lot of camping experience, but enough to know she’s excited about the idea.

4) I’ve got a fair amount of experience, I’ve done a ten day canoe trip, several long weekends snow show camping*in New England, sections of the AT, etc.*

5) We have all the racks, bags, camping gear, stove, tent, etc. etc. that would could need.

6) For bikes were using Miyata touring bikes, she’s got an ‘85 210 and I have a ‘91 1000.

7) She is fluent in Spanish, mine is passable.*
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So we’d be on vintage tourers, camping a bunch with a some*hotel stays, and we’re planning on starting with 40 mile days and building from there.

Are there any warm destinations we should check out where*a US Dollar has a solid exchange rate? We do have some air miles to burn, and we have both traveled a lot, but neither of us has been to Asia... We’d love to see Cambodia, Thailand, or maybe Vietnam?*

Any thoughts?*