Introduction and background

Hi, I'm Chris.

I quit my job last week. For five years I toiled at a computer monitor and kept computer systems running for some very large banks. It paid extremely well, but was entirely unfulfilling.

I have a dog named Bear. He is a six-year-old sixty pound shepherd/chow(?) mix. He is sweet, fuzzy, gentle, and loves road trips. Of the two of us, he has probably suffered the most from living in the desolate suburbs of central Ohio; but we both deserve better.

So the plan is to load the dog in the car and have adventures, Couch Surfing along the way, until it stops seeming like a good idea. Is that much of a plan? Maybe not, but it gives me lots of time to work on a better one. Spending the next 30-40 years doing things I don't especially enjoy isn't much of a plan either, and this will allow me to try things on for a while and figure out what it is that I do like.

No point in waiting until I'm seventy, retired, and have a bad knee to go see the world. Right?