Where are we now?
We’re still alive and well, and very busy. Rosemary has no fewer than five books underway, with a tight schedule for getting them finished, so she’s been buried in research, organizing her writing materials, and beginning the writing.
Downsizing has continued – we may do yet another major round soon (will it ever end?). Meanwhile we discovered our awesome Property Binder tabs in storage, so Chelsea is now setting up a shopping cart to make the binder tabs available for purchase.
We’ve also got some major decisions on whether to sell our house or not; that has meant a good deal of research and planning time.
Yes, our Body-for-Life program is still in process (workouts, bike rides, menu plans) – we’ve had amazing results, gaining muscle and losing inches. We’ll be looking so good our first day out on the road again!
It’s not all been work, work, work (though it mostly has). Thanks to our much-loved Alex, we saw both Shrek 4 and Despicable Me – we loved them both.
Rosemary hopes to write a travel journal in the next few days – time slips by so fast that weeks seem like days. Bear with us and keep checking back.
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 recently finished cycling our last section in the US – riding the Gulf Coast from New Orleans LA to Corpus Christi TX.
After a re-organizational break in Florida we will start again in Corpus Christi and ride down to Brownsville TX, continuing on to explore Mexico, Central America, and 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