Where are we now?
Just wait long enough and all good things will come to pass. That’s certainly true for us. After lo these many, many months, our house is finally scheduled to close in late January. The closing date has been a moving target for some months now, so we can’t count on which week it will be, but it’s closer than ever.
We are in the final, final stages of packing, scanning, and just generally getting ready to leave our house and community of eleven years. Rosemary has been focusing on writing along with the downsizing projects.
It’s been tough to keep up with writing the blogs and doing the photos with all the other work, but Rosemary did manage to make a head start on catching up. Start at “Downsizing Revisited” and work your way forward to read what we’ve been up to since August. She’s hoping to be caught up by the end of the year (only another two weeks!), so keep checking back.
Our current plans are to spend late January and all of February in southwest Louisiana, since Rosemary still needs to write. We will leave from Louisiana the first few days of March and cycle back to the east coast, heading up to Bar Harbor, arriving by early May.
We’ll keep you posted as we know more.
What are we doing?
We are Rosemary Taugher and Chelsea Taugher-Dias – mom and daughter – and we set off in June 2007 on a self-contained bicycle trip exploring approximately 45 countries and international territories. We’ll be gone about 10 years, maybe longer.
So far we have cycled the Atlantic coast from Key West FL to Boston MA and adventured our way up to Bar Harbor ME. On the Pacific Coast we visited Seattle and skipped down to central California, where we cycled from Santa Barbara through Los Angeles and beyond. We then cycled the Gulf Coast from New Orleans LA to Corpus Christi TX.
After a re-organizational break in Florida, selling our house and downsizing our lives to near-zero, we are starting again in southwest Louisiana, riding from there to the east coast. Because of heat and work/weather conditions, we missed much of our originally planned ride up the east coast and down the west coast, so we are now revising our route.
By early March 2012 we are riding up the Atlantic coast to Bar Harbor, Maine, across the Northern Tier to Vancouver Canada, and down the Pacific coast to Mexico.
We’ll spend a year in Mexico, two years in Central America, and four years in South America.
After South America we are cycling the Caribbean islands, including the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, and the Bahamas.
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the number of moments that take your breath away.”
Anonymous
“The journey home is never a direct route; it is, in fact, always circuitous, and somewhere along the way, we discover that the journey is more significant than the destination, and that the people we meet along the way will be the traveling companions of our memories forever.”
Nelson DeMille, from his book Upcountry