Ilkleyal
        
 
         It was 3 months not two, and I have no job (currently being rectified urgently).
         
        
 The better half was told not asked - I went without for a while there but the trip was worth it 
        
 
        
. (I've also got a mortgage, sheep, cats and chickens but that never stopped me doing things - i'm paying for it now though, but so what - I did the trip).
         
        
 I figured I ought to do the trip right now, or one day when the stars lined up, perhaps I would be too old, in a wheelchair or afflicted with a unsavoury disease.
         
        
 Take the plunge mate and do it now while you can and want to.
         
        
 Enjoy your shiny machine and get it dirty - she'll love you for it.