Thanks ladies! Even though I have a bit of a cold, I can hardly wipe the smile off my face today. I had to go to bed last night not knowing if I'd get the bike since the auction ended in the middle of the night. When I woke up, I was almost scared to check my email as I knew I might not have gotten it, but I don't think many people are thinking about buying bikes on Christmas Eve, which worked to my favor as I was the only bidder.

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Where are you moving to?
We are still not 100% sure -- it's a bit complicated. We have an opportunity to rent a nice, furnished house from friends in Prairie Village, KS, who are going cruising on their sailboat next year. If our condo doesn't sell by this spring, that will be our best option as we can put the condo in the rental pool but won't have the equity out of it to buy another house; and if we rent anywhere else, we'd most likely have to buy or rent furniture as well -- we divested ourselves of most of that when we moved to Belize.

If our condo does sell, we have more options since we'll get our equity out. We could buy a house back in NC if we wanted to, or do the KS rental for a year first to see how that goes, or we talk about just traveling around in an RV for awhile. One of the things we've realized from our time here is that we want to continue traveling quite a lot now that we're both retired. We just got back from 16 days traveling around Mexico (five different cities) and had a blast! There are so many places we want to see in the US (especially in the west since most of our past travels have been in the east), and it would be easier to do that from Kansas than NC, but we love NC and will most likely end up back there eventually. Orange County keeps calling us back from wherever we try to go!

Whew...long answer, right? I told you it was complicated! No matter where we end up, though, cycling is going to be a big part of the equation. It's been fun riding beach bikes here, but it's awfully limiting; there are few roads, and we miss our road riding a LOT.