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Blogging, Travel

2015 Year in Travel (and Blog) Review!!!

What an amazing year 2015 was!!! I want thank you, dear reader, for following the journey throughout the year. Without your continued support of the blog and cheerleading, none of this would have been possible.     I want to start off 2016 by first recapping 2015. I realize that many bloggers posted their 2015 Year in Reviews in 2015, and I am late to the game. I have my reason, though:…

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Cooking, Food

Life with Baby Gourmand

I have a few trolls in The Wandering Gourmand community. They recently surfaced on two occasions – the announcement of my wife’s pregnancy and then again on our son’s birth.     Both posts were immediately followed with comments of “your traveling days are over,” “you’ll never eat out again,” and “get used to chicken nuggets instead of chicken cacciatore.” Normally they follow the spite with a muahaha to show that the…

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Blogging

Welcome Baby Gourmand

As I sit here in the quiet of my office, I’m keeping one eye on my computer and one on the rock-and-play positioned next to my desk. It’s well past midnight, and Deacon is (finally) sleeping soundly to the drum of my keyboard as I work on missed writing deadlines. A little over a week old, he still hasn’t acclimated to life outside the womb, sleeping when we’re up and about in…

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Blogging, Income Report

August Blog Income Report (And Traffic, Too)

Each month I publish an Income and Traffic Report. My desire is to inspire others to dream big and plan their own exit strategy from the cubicle hamster race. I also want to set the proper expectations that this is tough work. You’ll work harder than when you were working for the man with (a lot) less income at first and more fear than ever. But you know what? You’ll love it…

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Blogging, Income Report

July Blog Income Report (And Traffic, Too)

Each month I publish an Income and Traffic Report. My desire is to inspire others to dream big and plan their own exit strategy from the cubicle hamster race. I also want to set the proper expectations that this is tough work. You’ll work harder than when you were working for the man with (a lot) less income at first and more fear than ever. But you know what? You’ll love it…

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Blogging

The Number 1 Thing You Need to Start a Travel Blog

I didn’t know how to start a travel blog. I’d been trudging along at my blog for five years. The results were abysmal. My blog was abysmal. I didn’t know what I wanted it to be. It was kind-of sort-of a restaurant review, wine review, craft beer review, food pairing suggestions, sometime homebrew, recipe sharing, travel stories, rants, and raves blog with the occasional deep thought or funny story mixed in. It…

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Blogging, Income Report

June Blog Income Report (And Traffic, Too)

Each month I publish an Income and Traffic Report. My desire is to inspire others to dream big and plan their own exit strategy from the cubicle hamster race. I also want to set the proper expectations that this is tough work. You’ll work harder than when you were working for the man with (a lot) less income at first and more fear than ever. But you know what? You’ll love it…

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Europe, Travel

Rome – Visiting the Vatican

I’m not Catholic and figured visiting the Vatican would be a waste of my time.  The saints, popes, and gaudy paintings of Jesus suffering would be lost to me.  I grew up Protestant and our Jesus has risen.  Besides, there’d be a lot of people there and I don’t do crowds.  I’d read of lines winding throughout and around Saint Peter’s Square to catch a glimpse of the holy grounds now that a…

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Pairing Challenge

Soft Shell Crab Pairing Challenge – The Vote

I love food’s that bring out my inner gastronomical caveman! There’s nothing like bone marrow, calamari tentacles, or elk chops to help get him beating my chest in delight. Soft shell crabs are another one of those foods. You’re actually eating the whole dang crab, shell and all. There’s a crunchiness and primitiveness to it that makes me want to drag a club and walk around in a loincloth. Thus, I was…

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