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You don't really need full suspension to do that kind of touring even though hardtail is kind of Overkill.
A proper tree frame with lots of extra mounting stuff for racks and extra water bottles with save your life. This is a Naked bike made by a guy out on Quadra Island in British Columbia.
Rack and Fender mounts three water bottle mounts made with a heavy duty fork and tubing and it also has S&S couplers so that you can break it down with one tool into a travel case.
So far this thing is Sheen action on four continents and I am planning a trip out to Hawaii with it at some point when this epidemic breaks so I can go and take it up to the telescopes up on top of the Big Island.
If I had to do it over again, I would have gotten the Bob trailer a lot earlier because as it turns out I really hate having all that extra weight on a front rack. Generally cross-country bikes are not very well set up forgery touring as the tubing tents B bit lighter, they don't have a lot of extras like water bottle or Fender and rack mounting on it. The one exception to that was my old Rocky Mountain Stratos which saw me through biking trips on large sections of The Kettle Valley Railway back in 1996.
I wouldn't have got a bike brand new as it would have been about $4,500 up. I got it for 1100 with a hundred knocked off the price because the guy couldn't find the special spanner wrench for the couplers. And from judging what they look like, I don't think he ever took it apart so I'm not sure why he bought it anyway. You don't need a lot of fancy parts on it going to these new one by drivetrain is really compromise your climbing ability because then you're really stuck. This one has a 3 by 9 drivetrain with grip shift and cable disc brakes.
