gqsmoothie

...if you had $7000 and time wasn't a factor?

Cyclist0094

I would do Land's End to John O'Groats (Great Britain) Along the way I would stop at every pub I could find and buy everyone a couple of rounds.

BlueTwo

Circumnavigate Australia for 8 months to a year with many excursions into the outback

Machka 

I cycletoured in Australia for three months - stealth camping as well as using hostels and regular campground. I did some additional things while I was there like a cruise out to the Great Barrier Reef, etc.

It cost me about $2000 in airfare to get there and back. It's much less if you are only going for 30 days or fewer, but as soon as you fly just about anywhere in the world for longer than 30 days, the price nearly doubles. I have no idea why.

The rest of the trip cost me about $3000.

Total: $5000.00

So ... that $7000 might not last the entire 8 months to a year unless you were really careful with your money.

Machka 

For $7000 and time to spare ........ hmmmmm .... so many places to choose from ....

I'd probably try to see how far I could get cycling (as much as possible) from Alaska to Argentina ... or something like that.

john bono

I'd pack my bike with clothes and camping gear, and see how far I'd get on $3500--the other $3500 being for the return trip.

Schumius

Well, that's the exact amount of money I'm trying to save for the trip from Vietnam to Spain. Am always been fascinated by Central Asia and Middle East.

BlueTwo

Yeah I know It is a minimum of $1000cdn a month but more like $1500 with no worries; but the $7000 was so close that I just threw out my next dream trip . On the topic of airfare, it is down to $1500 in January (I flew to New Zealand for $1500 ) and $1000 in May to Australia from Vancouver and there are closer places to go to; but I never count the airfare in the trip budget -that is a fixed cost

Vancouver to Chili would be a good trip but I think I would start in Mexico.

cyclezealot

My next riding goal is to tour Hungary. But, flitting about to bed and breakfast's, I'd suspect it will cost under $1000. I have heard, the former Soviet military roads have been converted to bike paths in Hungary and the Czech Rep. and the riding is awesome.

Bockman

I would cyclotour the great High Gothic Cathedrals of France.

Machka 

Ride the PBP ... you climb to every church from Paris to the coast and back!!

BlueTwo

Katmandu to Shanghai is another trip I would like to do.
also
Nairobi to Cape Town
also
Katmandu to Frankfurt
(11,000 kms -meet someone this past winter who had just completed this journey WOW ! )

paul2

With $7000 you could tour Asia for a long time.

bikebuddha 

Heck, for 7K I could tour Europe for a long time.

philso

i'd try an around-the-world tour. i bet it's doable if you pinch your pennies.

drcrash

Back and forth across North America (a Forrest-Gump-on-a-bike thing) till funds run out.

markf

Back to Italy.

RiotBoi

I'd go uhmmm..... *points* that way.

jimmuter

I could probably get $7K together without too much trouble. It's the time thing that proves difficult. I would probably start at home and head NW until I got through Alaska. Is that even possible?

rich007

That's how much I have budgeted for my upcoming trip around the Himalayas (See link in my sig)...

With your kind of money, I'd probably do something like a tour from Beijing in China through Vietnam and Laos to Thailand, even further down to Malaysia... Another favorit one would be from Europe to India (or China) overland... Or, as Machka suggested above, from Alaska to Patagonia

Sorry, I just love the BIG & LONG tours

jcm

Europe. Drop me anywhere in Europe.

bronskcloosper

I'd want to do the perimeter of the USA. I also like the idea of Alaska to Argentina.

jhershbine

I would connect the Adventure Cycling routes and would circle the US, then if I pinched pennies well enough I would go to Europe and tour some more... One can dream...

Machka 

Yes ... of course it's possible. Why wouldn't it be?

BlueTwo

A old girlfriend of mine ,travelled from Vancouver to alaska on her bike and then flew to Vadislacov ( sorry about the spelling ) Eastern coast of USSR and took the train to Moscow and Paris ,,,,----but ,,,,--- It would make an interesting trip by bike ,,,especially after watching on OLN the travel of two British actors by motorcycle over the "Road of Bones " thru Mongolia Kasastan and into Europe although they travel the other way ,, watching the show I thought it would be easier cycling the route ,, The show is called "The Long Way Round " It is another way other than China --- Or the southern route of Iran to Istanbul ,, How to get to Istanbul that is what I am looking in to ,, I would like to do the trip with others but this just might be the fear of the great unknown one of my great QUESTS ,, to do what everyday people around me say is crazy .