Category: New Hampshire

Still here – but not for long

Yep. We’re still here. Even though we are so happy staying here – it’s very comfortable – we still are getting increasingly itchy feet, and the open road is calling us more every day. We have had incredibly much to do now that our funding has disappeared, and we have to raise funds to continue, as well. We spend a lot of time at the computer, and we’ve done lots of work on the bikes.

Website improvements, website lockdown, and organizational issues

We’ve continued our work on updating our site to reflect the new company, Traveling Roses. We are still catching up on blogs and on the photo galleries, and we are writing additional pages on things like choosing clothing and equipment, the top questions we are always asked, text for our gift registry text, and more. We are also collecting our “hundreds” of bits of paper that have accumulated (or that we threw in our bags in a panic when we left) and we are inputting all those into a Word document so we can access the information easily and without being weighed down by all that paper weight.
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We’re here in Dover still, and still catching up on all our tasks. Before we left on our trip, we opened a new company called Traveling Roses, to reflect the changes in our lives. We are really happy because we have now managed to get our domain name changed and all the hosting issues solved with our website. It’s been an incredible learning curve. As I am writing this, Chelsea is busy updating our graphics files and all the related references on our site. She’s even hoping to have finished the updates on our Google map by the end of today.
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We’re back online at long last. It has felt like forever since we have connected with the outside world, but our lives and adventures have meanwhile been rolling along steadily.

Where have we been?

Since we last wrote we have progressed from Satellite Beach through the rest of FL – Port Orange, Beverly Beach, and St Augustine FL. Attempting to escape the heat, we took a bus through Georgia, stopping in Savannah; and South Carolina, stopping in Charleston; and then finished the ride in Wilmington, North Carolina. We rode (in triple digit heat) from Wrightsville Beach in Wilmington to Surf City/North Topsail Beach, NC; from there to Goose Creek Campground on Bogue Sound, then off to Otway NC. From Otway we had a hot and difficult day (serious heat exhaustion) getting to Ocracoke on the Outer Banks.
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Our bus ride was really uneventful until New York. The traffic getting into New York was appalling, and we were late by at least an hour. We were half panicked, as we needed to make a connection in New York for Boston, and we weren’t sure what our other choices were. As it was, we weren’t arriving in Boston until 11:30 at night, and we had someone meeting us there, driving at least an hour to get there.

Typical of a huge city, the New York bus terminal was immense. We had our small carry-on luggage, two big snorkel bags, stuffed to the gills, and at least three good-sized cardboard boxes. Needless to say, there was no way we could carry all that ourselves, and Murphy’s Law kicked in – our next bus was clear across the huge terminal. It was worse than many airports! Luck smiled on us in the shape of a baggage guy who agreed to take our boxes and snorkel bags over to the next bus while we ran for the departure gate.
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