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It's cold outside and I want to curl up on the couch and veg out with a bag of chips, hot chips. Not the Taiki's the kids love, those are weird. Just regular hot chips. Instead I am launching this business, gearing up for Shades Retreat, and working on plans B, C and D. In the middle of all of this is the wife and kids. It's honestly great. Mentally exhausting at times but really great. I've woken up with a smile daily...and a cup of coffee. I'm limiting myself to one cup a d

Except most of the money spent in restaurants. Most, not all but most definitely applies. And I'm not saying it was horrible, but it was bad meaning bad, not bad meaning good. If you're over 35 you will get that reference. Once you move past the food, Barcelona was beautiful. Breathtaking even. Gaudi's work is amazing, the city is laid out in an easy manner, public transportation is fantastic and outside of the food, not that expensive to live in. We arrived on an early Sunda

You know I'm feeling really good right now, slightly tired after a whirlwind day of packing, deciding and discussing the kids and how they will live for the next week. Let alone ensuring that everything for Spain is taken care of for us. But I'm feeling good, well I was. About 16 minutes ago it hit me that I would be flying tomorrow and the apprehension set in, started thinking on the actual flight. I like flying. I hate flying while fat. To quantify, I hate the small ass sea

By some odd quirk of fate I have become a member of a barbecue or supper club. We meet once a month at a local BBQ spot, matter of fact we are following this list and checking it twice - Atlanta's Best BBQ. So far so damn good. I've been to a few on my own but to go with folks and talk smoke rings and other bbq stuff is rather interesting. On a side note I am a huge BBQ competition fan, I've watched hours of this stuff on TV and in my mind I am now a judge. I can spot an ov

We went. And honestly I should probably stop here because the experience wasn't that great. They moved it to bumblef^ck Alpharetta so technically it should be Alpharetta International Night Market. It was in an active mall parking lot and parking was horrible unless you were open to walking a country mile. The year before in October the mall was old, let's be honest, but there was plenty of parking. I will say they had shuttles that just rambled through and stopped at cluster

New things, new air, new air... Let me repeat that new air. I am, or rather I have sought new air. This translates to I jumped. And by jumped I mean quit my 9 to 5. A 9 to 5 that I had been at for 5+ years and was highly successful. I was promoted two times, manager, salary increases, corner office (no view) and relatively free reign in regards to my hours and processes. And yet in the last few months, probably longer, I've been dreading going into work. Tension filled my bod

As you know we wrote a series of blogs about the four countries that we are considering moving to in the not so distant future. Feel free to read up on our opinions and google searched information. It's been fun, to say the least. Indoor toilets in all and honestly that was a high point in our search. In the midst of sharing our four blogs, we sorta realized we may have not shared all of our reasons and our requirements. Not that we had to but if you are following along on th

Our plans are simple. Move abroad. Live happily and relatively cheaply. And by cheaply I mean to a country or countries that are cheap. We've honed in on South East Asia because..well it's cheap and it appears to be the "hot spot." Hot doesn't necessarily mean easy, especially since most of SE Asia requires a Visa to enter and to stay. We've focused on four countries and decided to share with you what we've found. Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. All because they are

I'm sorta cheap, I know this. It doesn't bother me at all. I say when you start falling in love you look for different vacation areas cause the one you loving on has ideas on where she wanna go. So here we are now, just now, looking for lodging cause life and other things have taken precedence. And these prices. These prices. My soul is hurt. I'm cheap. I don't mind admitting that. I get really happy when I find great lodging at a reasonable price. Barcelona is not the city f

I started writing this blog from so many angles in my head that I honestly don't know where it will end up. Will it be travel related? Personal? Will one of the kids have moved my stuff or Amber fried a piece of salt pork and passed it off as a pork chop. Similar to them field peas she made with extra extra extra salt. I ate them though. Cause honestly them thangs was good with my cornbread. She likes cooking together. Or watching me cook. One of the two. My last post was abo

Amber and I are married. I keep saying this out loud and here cause...shit. She and the kids are moving physically into my home next month. Possibly earlier cause you know, Taurus. I'm adjusting, cause Taurus. I like my space, I like my quiet. I'm giving all that up for love. For love. Yep. And great conversations about how we are going to do this. And plans for the future. And late night rambles about our past lives. It's taken all of me not to make a list in the midst of al

AKA Traveling While Fat. Either title works and either title fits. I'm a plus size woman to my wife and a big ol fat chick to the person sitting next to me on the smedium airplane. I expect that. I really do. It's not going to stop me from flying, but it does make my heart race a little and the beginning of each stroll to my seat a little nauseating. Again not enough to stop flying but enough to research and catalog each airline/flight I've been on not by food (though that co