Best Rest Product Product is the maker of the Cycle Pump, the Best Tire In factor for Motorcyclists, it'll inflate your flat tire in less than three minutes. Made in the USA comes with a lifetime warranty.

They also distribute Google Tech filters, Cycle Pump.com.

And Green Chili Adventure Gear offers American made heavy duty luggage systems for all types

of motorcycles you can turn any dry bag into luggage using their strapping system and

of course Green Chili Adventure Gear is tested in extreme weather and terrain to withstand the abuse that adventure writing gives it.

Tough, reliable gear, Green Chilly ADV.com.

Budgeting for a trip has always been a bit of an enigma.

There's just so many variables to consider, and much of that is subjective.

Will you camp, stay in hostels, rent a B&B, all changing the budget drastically.

But as if to add to that mountain of pressure that we've always sort of had to deal with with figuring

out a budget for travel, the world has gone crazy. Since COVID prices have skyrocketed, fuel, groceries, parts, accommodations,

virtually everything has experienced, if not everything has experienced a price increase. Not to mention the supply chain issues.

That makes travel more difficult obviously,

but on top of that because virtually no one was traveling

through the COVID pandemic at times no one was traveling through the COVID pandemic, at times no one was crossing borders,

Motorcycle shipping programs were shut down, both air and sea.

Many of those shipping opportunities that were available before have just dried up.

Basically the market disappeared overnight for motorcycle travel like someone

switched a light switch off. And while those people that were catering to the pre-pandemic motorcycle travel

market were scrambling to figure out what they're going to do next to survive, they turned their

focus to other things, other ways to make a living.

So what we end up with now is a vastly different travel world.

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