Your trip's sound great and I'm finding the info here from people with a round the world underway very useful. Especially given, like John, I plan to set off on my own adventure late June/early July on my xt660r heading also east from the UK.

Paul (two wheels 03) - I notice in your signature you mention Kev's fork spacers. I just wondered how you are finding them given you have dealt with a mixture of on and off road? Did you cut them down slightly to cope with the off road sections better or have they been fine at the standard size?

Cheers