Swiss couple in Taiwan on 23-year round-world drive

Emil Schmid, 65, and Liliana Schmid, 66, arrived from East Timor and kicked off their trip across Taiwan Saturday from Kaohsiung, after their Toyota Land Cruiser was shipped to the southern Taiwan port city.

They began their round-the-world trip on October 18, 1984, going to the United States. Emil was a computer software engineer and their global adventure began with the simple wish to get away from schedules for a year.

But one year’s travel proved insufficient, so they kept prolonging it and have not stopped since.

Over the past 23 years, they have visited North America, South America, Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia, going home to Switzerland only three times.

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