Vagabonding begins!

The unknown road – no place like it!

After nearly 3 years here at BNA, I’ve decided to move my blog to a new home.  Gasp.

Being an ex-Dilbert type IT engineer, it made sense to put my blog on the same server as my other travel websites, so the appropriate gnomes have been bribed, the sacrifice was made to the internet gods, and now I wait to get some love from the oracle. (Google)

The hardest part of doing this is the fear of loosing faithful readers who have stuck with me over the last 3 years through the good times, the Thai buckets, the snakes, sharks, bears, and scuba disasters…..so if you will, please change your bookmarks and join me at my new:

Vagabonding Blog  (http://www.vagabondinglife.com)

There you will find among other things a continuation of my vagabonding + articles and insight into the life of a vagabum. Plus even a neat broken RSS counter with which you can subscribe!

I chose Vagabonding Life as the new name of the blog because…what was supposed to be a 1 year exit from the rat race turned into 2, then 3, etc, etc….it is actually my new lifestyle and I want to share it.

Thank you to everyone that has read this over the years….somehow this meager blog full of bad English meant only to let family know that I was still alive has attracted lots of interesting people that have become new friends. It has even brought opportunities and writing gigs….who would have thought?! I hate to let something that has enhanced my life die a slow death, so come join me on the new website.

Lets play.

Yes….I am home. Surprise.

I have been trying desperately to write about our recent road trip through the American West, but I keep getting distracted by things such as
trying to earn enough money to eat. Its not that I don’t enjoy the writing anymore….in fact, I miss it quite a bit. Unfortunately my eyeballs can
only handle so much time basking in the radiation from this screen, so I have to prioritize.

I can say, that I am planning something potentially big for this blog. To be announced soon.

I still have 380 photos from our trip through Yellowstone, Jackson Hole, and even a video of my solo climb in Boulder, Colorado (which still makes me wake up in a sweat).
I’ll get there soon enough.

 

I can say that South Dakota has some of the finest asses in the states.

 

While driving through Custer State Park (yes, the same General Custer that ... [Continue reading this entry]

 

Finally - something big. I saw Mount Rushmore for the first time from the road, and just the sheer size of the thing was enough to make me sit ... [Continue reading this entry]

Thanks to a certain mammoth sized department store, any retail presence that begins with the sound "WAL..." gives me a gag reflex. I was relieve to find out however that Wall Drug spells ... [Continue reading this entry]

I can sum up the first 2 days of our family road trip with one word: Corn. I had no idea so much existed in this universe, let alone in between my state of Kentucky ... [Continue reading this entry]

Yes....you heard right. I am packing. And having one tough job doing it. I decided last minute to tag along on my family's 4000 mile road trip across the West. Part to help them drive and part because ... [Continue reading this entry]

 I guess the horse didn't get the memo on the jump

 

And so...with one final, spectacular display of hooves, dirt, pain, and gasps from the crowd - the Kentucky Summer ... [Continue reading this entry]

It seems that every time I update this dusty blog its only about 2 things.....horses or photography. So what's this all about? Guess! The good news is that my month away from ... [Continue reading this entry]

A trickle of sweat ran down my overheating cheek. Tens of thousands of strangers were shouting at me, pointing, there was no place to hide as I made my way down the street..... No, It wasn't an angry mob ... [Continue reading this entry]