paying down debt + travelling for a few weeks seems counterproductive

I do realize this. But I also must keep my sanity. I'm going up into Labrador and Newfoundland in Canada on my motorcycle for a two to three week loop. I'll be camping as much as possible, cooking my own food, etc. I'm honestly going to try to do this as cheap as I can. The ferry's will be the expensive part and that's not really that bad, especially since I recently realized the prices were in Canadian dollars!

My ebay sales have been going depressingly well though. I've been posting a lot of auctions each week and they have mostly been getting good prices. It's only depressing because it's stuff I love and I will undoubtedly regret selling in the future. Oh well. the price of my stupidity. I could have paid off more of my debt right now but with the trip coming up I wanted to have a little bit of a buffer zone in case of some emergency. I'll probably pay down another $1K to $2K before I leave on the 12th of August.

As for the trip here is the basic idea. This map and a single ferry reservation is really about all the planning I have done and probably all I will do before I leave. I prefer to figure stuff out on the go.

Part 1:

The first part should look something like that map there. Riding up through New Hampshire and Maine and then up through Quebec following the huge bay that probably has some French name I don't recognize. At Baie-Comeau I cut North and that's where it starts to get interesting. The towns fade away and the road turns to gravel at some point. There's something like 500 kilometers of gravel road between there and Goose Bay. Plus there's that crazy looking ancient impact crater that makes a very circular lake on the map. Pretty cool.


Part 2:

From Happy Valley - Goose Bay the road ends and I have to take a Ferry overnight out to Cartwright where I can head south, sort of along the coast, and then catch another ferry over the Newfoundland. A couple of days riding around Newfoundland and then another ferry to Nov Scotia. There I'll be riding the Cabot Trail and then heading back into the states in western Maine.

I'm planning to be out for a couple of weeks for the ride. I will undoubtedly be out of contact for a while since even satellite phones tend to lose service way up north, but I will try to drop an update or two on here when I get a chance during the trip.