Why the hell a blog? An introduction

Honestly, I just thought it would be a place to put my travels and thoughts. This is actually my third blog. This one will cover my travels both alone and with friends and family where as my others are sort of personal space where I keep in touch with friends.

I don't have many pictures of myself. The lovely lady of mine has a few but not going to go digging for them. This particular picture is a few years old. I don't have the beard and mustache or even that truck anymore. Still have the gut though.

I'm a daddy of a beautiful little 5 year old girl. I have a moody teenage Step Daughter, two dogs and a Lovely wife that I have been married to for 11 years. She puts up with my BS for some reason so I can't ask for much more.

I had a big wake up call on 10/31/2003 at 6:25pm in the form of a heart attack at 37 years old. It's heredity rearing its ugly head. I'm doing ok now but it scared the hell out of me. I have 20-30 minutes of time that I can't account for. Three stints after it was all said and done. took me a good solid year to get back to where I felt good.

It taught me a big lesson about making the best of what you have. I feel I am a different person from the experience. I'm thankful for every day I wake up.

This is my little one Zan. According to www.howmanyofme.com she is the Only one in the last US census. My wife and I think that's pretty cool that we managed to come up with a totally unique name for her. We thought we were making it up but it is a name in some Asian cultures and it means "happiness". We have also found in Persian cultures it means "the mind", "knowledge,understanding" or "Reasoning and Logical Thinking". In Chinese it means "praise". They all fit her quite well. Zan's Big sister Melissa. She's a moody teenager that knows it all.

My lovely Bride Janice. Strongest person I know. She has to be to put up with me. We actually met on the computer through a local BBS called Hotlanta. Just hit it off and we have been together ever since.

The last two members of the family are Britney (brown) and Rusty (red) aka "The destruction twins" . They are half Britney Spaniel and half Llewellyn Setter.

I intend to document my life and travels. I have a great many interests and I thought it might be interesting to put them down and have something for my kids to read when they are a little older.