Hello friends of Tim and Cindie Travis: DownTheRoad.org
Our second book is finally finished! I look back and can’t believe we did all the work to write, edit, and publish this book on the road as we traveled internationally, frequently while free camping on the side of the road in our tent on battery power.
The first draft was written in South America as the events unfolded. The second draft was worked on in Malaysia except a couple chapters that were reworked later in Tasmania, the Gold Coast, and as we rode across the lonely outback “top end” in Australia. The first edit of the entire book was done in New Plymouth, New Zealand. We hired a professional editor and worked with her as we rode through the South Island of New Zealand. In Valdez, Alaska, USA we hired the book cover artist, completed the layout, and wrapped everything up. We are writing you from the road in Tok, Alaska and will be responding to your emails from the Yukon, Canada.
Our RoadNews newsletter subscribers helped us by providing feedback on the first chapter while a few interested people went on to read the entire book and provide valuable edits and content suggestions. Thank you all very much for your words of encouragement, help, and insisting that Cindie and I stick with the project to the end.
The printed edition of our second book, “Down the Road in South America: A Bicycle Tour through Poverty, Paradise, and the Places in Between” is available for purchase thorough our web site by the usual payment methods including Visa and Paypal. Unfortunately, due to lengthy set up procedures, it won’t be available in Amazon or other bookstores for several more months.
As a special thanks to our regular email readers, we are offering a prepublication special. Purchase our second book: “Down the Road in South America” and we will send you a link to download a free copy of our MP3 audio book of the first book: “The Road That Has No End”. This offer is good until July 31, 2008.
In addition, if you purchase both printed books together, “The Road That Has No End” and “Down the Road in South America” we will give you a 25% discount off the retail price plus the free audio book. Just make sure you use the special button located on our web page address listed below.
http://www.downtheroad.org/Publishing
To update you on where we are now, we have left Valdez, Alaska, USA and have started riding again making our way south through Canada and down the west coast of the USA. I have caught up the New Zealand web site with Cindie’s last journal entries and photos. I am now working on a new section of our web site for the current leg of our journey. Please stay tuned for our regular photos and daily journals. I hope that this does not include stories about a grizzly bear attack or moose chasing us across the state.
Until then, THANK YOU all very much for taking interest in us and we look forward to the next leg of our journey.
Tim and Cindie Travis
The Valdez Harbor |
Close up of sea otter. |
A puffin bird. 
An island is the straits. |
The ice flow was too thick to get any closer to the Columbia Glacier. 
The humpback whale is a thrill to |
3 responses so far ↓
1 familyonbikes // Jul 15, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Good to hear you are back on the road! We are now in Whitehorse and are heading south - depending on quickly you travel we may up meeting up after all!
http://www.familyonbikes.org
2 Tim and Cindie // Jul 17, 2008 at 2:46 pm
We don’t know if we will catch you. We still have a lot of work to do and we chip away at it steadily. Hope you are enjoying Alaska and Canada as much as we are.
3 Kimberly Goza // Jul 25, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Hi Tim and Cindy,
I read both your blog and Nancy’s (familyonbikes). When I saw you were both in Tok just a few days apart. I was so hoping you would meet up. That would be epic! Best wishes to you all.
We might be joining you out there in a few months, just need to figure out how to pack our theatre show on bikes….
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