: Soulful Sounds Loves and Laughs at the Abbey in Orlando Our first real outing of the year was Acute Inflections: Soulful Sounds Love and Laughs. Not too …
: We need a car - to buy, to lease, or neither? Once we decided to stay in Orlando this year, the question became, how do we get around? My wife …
: No Turning Back. For real this time. About a year and a half ago I started this blog with a post called No Turning Back where I wrote …
: The three suitcase life…revisited A year ago we started the the three suitcase life. We survived, our suitcases didn’t. I replaced my …
: A one year retrospective - did the condotel plan work out? Chicago was our last stop of the year and now we are back home in Orlando. It’s been a wild 7 …
: Chicago, Illinois After leaving Richmond, my wife and I parted ways for three weeks. She came back home to Orlando and …
: Going to the US Tennis Open in New York City The last time I was in Albany I mentioned to my cousin that it was on my bucket list to go to the US …
: Richmond, VA Richmond was a crazier trip than even we usually have. Besides my being on the job hunt doing most …
: Looking for a job in Richmond, VA (part IV) Now that I think I have all of my ducks in a row, it’s time to get into job hunting mode. I’ve done …
: Looking for a job in Richmond, VA (part III) The rules have changed for looking for a job post Covid. Before 2020, when I was looking for a job, …
: Looking for a job in Richmond, VA (Part II) Continuing the story from part I… AWS gave me a four year offer as they do everyone. My original …
: Looking for a job in Richmond, VA (part I) I had to think long and hard about this post and how much I should share on the internet about it. …
: Back home in Albany, GA One hard question that people ask me is “What do I consider home?” Our legal home is Orlando. But we …
: Back home in Atlanta, GA We just left Atlanta. It was the first time I have been back since last year. The first goal was to …
: Dallas, TX After leaving Los Angeles we went to Dallas, TX for three weeks. For both of us, but more for me, it …
: Los Angeles, CA (part 2) I have to say our six day stop in Los Angeles was dissapointing with only a couple of highlights. We …
: Los Cabos, Mexico We left Los Cabos, Mexico about a week ago and it was a different experience. This was our first …
: Two weeks in Houston, TX We just spent two weeks in Houston Texas. It rained the first week and I had to travel for work the …
: A month in Las Vegas We have been in Las Vegas for 30 days. We never intended to be here this long. It just happened. It …
: Nine days in Nashville, TN Our trip back from San Juan to Nashville was quite interesting. We had a layover in Atlanta and they …
: San Juan, Puerto Rico We left Orlando Sunday for our first stop on our 8 month trip - San Juan Puerto Rico. It was a last …
: A trip to meet the family in New Orleans. After years of saying we were going to do it, my cousins and I finally went on a trip together to …
: A real vacation in Savannah, GA We just left our last stop for this leg of our journey - Savannah, GA. We are now nesting in our …
: Consistency We have stayed in six Embassy Suites and two Homewood Suites this year. Among the many other reasons …
: Segway tours We did our third Segway tour in Savannah, GA. It was slightly different. We wore earphones and a …
: Learning how to talk to people. I am introvert by nature or the other way i use to say it, “I don’t like people”. It use to be …
: Back in Atlanta, GA and the AMC A-List We had no plans on being back home in Atlanta so soon. But here we are. We had some business to …
: Quick business trips to Nashville TN and Raleigh NC While we were in Charlotte from 11/26 through 12/18, I took two last minute business trips. The …
: Charlotte, NC Our next stop was Charlotte, NC. We stayed at the Hilton Charlotte Concord. The hotel was nice …
: Charleston, SC We are leaving our first stop, Charleston South Carolina and headed to our next destination. For the …
: Los Angeles, CA We started our journey in San Francisco on a work trip. Since we were a short hop from LA where we …
: San Francisco, CA We are just leaving our first stop - San Francisco. After inauspicious start at the the Hilton San …
: The three suitcase life begins… We did it. We packed our three suitcases and started our journey. The first stop is San Francisco. …
: Apple Watch chargers I’ve also been looking for the “perfect” Apple Watch chargers. First I tried this two in 1 Apple …
: Hyatt hotels We were originally planning on staying exclusively in Hilton brand hotels. But there are a few …
: A week at the Secrets Aura Cozumel all inclusive resort My wife and I are just leaving AMR Secrets Aura in Cozumel. We stayed for seven days. There are a …
: Powering my gadgets. Another item in my go bag is this battery. It’s the only one I have found that can charge a laptop. …
: Credit card churning. Travel oriented credit cards usually come with sign up bonuses to acquire customers. The credit card …
: Why did I keep all of these books? As we have been downsizing, I have been steadily throwing away old books. The oldest of which are …
: Yet another charging cable This is yet another cord I have found useful when we travel. USB A on one end and 2 Lightning ends …
: Our exercise spaces Since I stopped teaching fitness classes part time a decade ago, I haven’t had any discipline about …
: Watching TV while traveling Unlike when we are “on vacation” we knew there was going to be a lot of downtime. Our solution was …
: What about my movie collection? While I really didn’t have a problem throwing away all of my old CDs, it is a lot harder to part …
: Downsizing and the Columbia House Record Club Back in the 90s, Columbia House had a service where you could buy 12 CDs for the price of one. I …
: Looking for the perfect cable part 2 While these cables work perfectly well for almost everything. They don’t support 100W charging for …
: The Roost Laptop stand When I am working at home. I have my monitor setup at the correct height. I hated just working with …
: The Nomad’s multiple monitor setup When I work at home, I have two external displays in addition to my laptop monitor. To duplicate …
: Virtual Mailboxes Our next question was how do we get mail if we are traveling everywhere? We looked into virtual …
: Looking for the perfect cable. I’ve been looking for the perfect charging /data cable forever for my combination of USB-C and …
: Basic economy airline seats Don’t ever cheap out and buy a Basic Economy seat. We bought one before I knew how bad they were. …
: The American Express Delta Reserve and checked luggage. This was all meant to be a learning experience before we start for real. My wife flew separately …
: Instacart One thing we realized early on was that we had to treat staying at hotels like we treat living at …
: We hate road trips. Now what? By June, we thought we had everything planned out. We drove to Nashville, TN for the weekend. Then …
: Loyalty One advantage of staying in Hilton over AirBnbs is that between credit cards, status at the hotel, …
: Embassy Suites at Icon Park in Orlando. We are just leaving the Embassy Suites at Icon Park in Orlando. We were here for 11 days to both …
: Hotels We really liked Hilton’s Embassy Suites when we stay for vacations and I stay for work. You get a …
: AirBnbs Once we decided we were going to be “Digital Nomads”, we wanted to see how we would like staying in …
: “We said we wanted to travel” We were told that although we owned the entire unit, we could only stay there 180 days. The rest of …
: Condotels After we decided that we were going to move to Florida, we started looking for condos. We already …
: No turning back. It all started in March 2022 with an idea that my wife and I wanted to move to a new place after …