Opinionated Fat Guy

Two very dear friends have recently set off on exciting new adventures in their lives: moving cross country to start anew in cities very different to their hometown.

• Royce is currently in the process of driving from San Francisco to Chicago.  
• Ryan made the trek from Miami to Los Angeles.  

Ryan has been having the itch to leave Miami for a few years with his eye set on New York, but a xmas encounter with a handsome former Floridian that now calls SoCal home changed the trajectory of the move to the other land of sunshine and palm trees.

Meanwhile Royce, who has been talking about leaving the Bay area since I first met him a decade ago, decided on the midwest, and should be arriving by tmrw night in Chicago.  

Some reasons for the respective moves are similar: Both wanted a change of scenery and felt that there hometowns weren’t letting them achieve their full happiness-potential. The scenarios are different however:   Ryan has a great boyfriend with a wonderful apartment (you can see the Griffith observatory and the Pacific Ocean from their balcony in Silverlake), and a growing web of friends that he’s made from the various trips out to LA to visit his other half in the last few months.   Royce however doesn’t know anyone in Chicago, has no place to stay when he gets there and to the best of my knowledge has never visited.  Neither of these guys have jobs lined up, tons of money in the bank, or a trust funds to live off.  Yet, what both Ryan and Royce do have is the drive and desire to make it work- and they will.  They are smart, charming, ambitious and determined to swallow up there new cities and not let it happen the other way around.  

Crazy?  Yes.    Scary?  Most Definitely.   Exciting?  Completely so!

I love these boys a lot and I’m so excited for them no matter how much I miss them.

Theyre blogging about their journeys, check them out when you can:

Ryan:  http://ryansfabulousadventure.wordpress.com/

Royce: http://roycethebeginning.wordpress.com/