How oh how

Just finished watching Long Way Round up to where they reach Magadan. We've taken numerious notes to try to choose the best time to travel through russia to avoid the minus 50 celcius temps, but also stupidly high rivers. But most of all, how the hell are we going to make this happen.
Saving this much money, getting the time off work, but also just my continual thought, that this is taking us 40K behind everyone else our age... I'm not so sure.