The New Plan

So, a lot of changes have occurred since I last updated. Trips planned, cancelled, re-planned and subsequently cancelled again.  For a while, I became disheartened.  I wasted my nest egg and gave in to despair. I resigned myself to internet fantasies of someday travels.  Then, an epiphany.  Why feel confined within national boundaries when there were boundless opportunities for me to explore from within?

There are a lot of places I've yet to see on this side of the globe, let alone on the other. Michigan excluded, I have immersed myself in 4 of 48, 2 of which involved permanent addresses.  I decided to discover America's food potential stateside rather judge it from abroad. It began as a trip to Portland, OR for a friend's wedding and mutated into something completely different at an incredible rate.

I assume by this point, you are asking just what this monster of a trip entails. Bear with me, as this about to get a bit ugly.