Okay, I lied, my DR200 is not superfast at all but I am riding around South America on a slow one!Now that's said, a little background info. I have started my trip in Sucre, Bolivia because I've been living with a very kind Bolivian family since April. Any updates to my location can be found here , as you can see I'm beginning this RR a few weeks late, I first wanted to make sure I had some content worth sharing.When living in Sucre I was riding an NX400 Falcon and did several trips around Bolivia and a little in Chile but after being stuck in the sand at over 5000m altitude and also running out of fuel a couple of times I decided to get something lighter and with higher fuel efficiency. A common bike in Bolivia is the DR200SE (Japanese spec) and after doing much research from the 200+ pages of the DR200 thread here on ADVRider I decided it was the bike for me. If I had the money it would be the DRZ400 but that costs $9.8k in Bolivia, the 200 costs just $4.6k and is pretty much travel ready, just requiring the side racks for my saddlebags. That extra money I plan to spend on beer... or other festivities throughout the summer monthsHere is my DR200SE, prior to travel:I prefer mostly dirt roads and try to avoid tarmac but of course that's not always possible, in which case I plan to stick to the side of the road and travel at about truck speed.First thing was to have some side racks made, I found a very talented local welder, gave him a description of what I wanted and ended up with these:The metal cost just 20 bob, about $3USD and I paid him $42 for the labour, needless to say I was very happy with this! I am using Andy Strapz saddlebags which I have owned for several years, these are great quality saddlebags and I highly recommend them, the lack of zips make them excellent when encountering lots of mud, dirt and dust. Also installed was an FMF pipe just for that little extra horsepower and some alterations to the sprocket setup, this farming spec'ed DR200SE runs very low gearing with a standard 12/47, now I am running 13/39, which I believe to be equivalent to the enduro spec 15/45.Some other additions are Stearns tank bags and seat cover, these come from Walmart believe it or not but seem to work just fine! They were mailed to me by ADVrider member Klay, Rasthomas also offered to do so as well, I have been very impressed with the kindess of the ADVRider community so far.Once everything was ready I packed my things and left early in the morning.Tania kindly came to see me off:Kira seemed awfully sad and was crying although I'm not convinced, was she sad to see me go as a person or is it that she will miss me letting her sleep indoors on my bedroom floor?